Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:40:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Default keyboard LEDs |
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On Jan 14 2008 00:52, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >In many cases, one prefers to have e.g. the NumLock on by default. In >many cases, one doesn't want to have it by default, e.g. on laptops. > >Distributions actually have a very hard time trying to set this >correctly after the kernel boot, and that doesn't work for new consoles >that are created via the openvt(1) command anyway. This hence adds a >keyboard.default_leds boot parameter that permits to configure the >default keyboard LEDs.
Apart from openvt being able to find the first unused tty, what is openvt good for? (Read: I could just as well run `bash </dev/tty8 >/dev/tty8 2>/dev/tty8`)
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