Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:00:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use PC-BIOS NUMLOCK flag |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Bodo Eggert, le Thu 16 Oct 2008 13:59:49 +0200, a écrit :
> > + If you have an alternative firmware like OpenFirmware or LinuxBios, > > + this flag might not be set correctly, which results in a random state > > + of the Numlock key. > > That's an issue. That means that distributions will just not enable, > and thus the flag is not really useful, since people who would > compile their own kernel would very likely have already setup their > initialization scripts into calling setleds +num (or just set LEDS=+num > in /etc/console-tools/config on a debian machine).
I hope somebody will pop up and say "Hey, those will create an IBM PC data area, because they run DOS" ... -- "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." -Infantry Journal | |