Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:33:05 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use PC-BIOS NUMLOCK flag |
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On Thu 2008-10-16 21:11:06, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Bodo Eggert, le Thu 16 Oct 2008 20:00:31 +0200, a écrit : > > 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" ... > > Mmm, or rather "hey, here are the patches to fix those BIOSes" :)
Broken bioses being around should not penalize working bioses. Patch looks good to me. Yes, I consider LinuxBios broken in this regard.
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