How do I get the Num Lock to stay on when I boot up?

Shawn

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Shawn wrote:
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> How do I get the Num Lock to stay on when I boot up?


It's a BIOS setting. Enter your BIOS when you start up your PC. It should
say something like 'Hit DEL to enter setup' or 'Press F1 for BIOS
settings'.

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Thor wrote:
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>
> That's only in windows...Since he was asking in a linux group it hardly
> applies.


I thought it was OS independent. Why else put it in the BIOS? 

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John wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:44:15 +1200, Thor wrote:
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> 
>
>
> Another option is to modify your keymap under X so that the number pad
> behaves as if the NumLock is always on (see manpage for xmodmap).  It's
> easy--just create the file ~/.Xmodmap with the content:
>
> ! redefines numeric keypad to be used without NumLock
> keycode 79 = KP_7
> keycode 80 = KP_8
> keycode 81 = KP_9
> keycode 83 = KP_4
> keycode 84 = KP_5
> keycode 85 = KP_6
> keycode 87 = KP_1
> keycode 88 = KP_2
> keycode 89 = KP_3
> keycode 90 = KP_0
> keycode 91 = KP_Decimal
>
> ! deactivates NumLock key
> keycode 77 =
>

Thanks for the info, this helps. Just out of curiosity, is there a way
to do something similar to this when you are running in a shell not under X?

Shawn

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:30:38 +0000, Shawn wrote:
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> John wrote:


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> Thanks for the info, this helps. Just out of curiosity, is there a way to
> do something similar to this when you are running in a shell not under X?


See the manpage for loadkeys.  The keymap gets set globally in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable.  You might do something like create a
custom keymap based on /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz (or
whatever your preference) and have it loaded at startup.  Noodle around
to do it on a per user basis.  HTH.  -John

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