numlock off at startup

**wicking** · 09-15-2004, 12:48 AM

Hello.

What do I have to change, to make my Numlock turned on at startup?

I have installed Knoppix on my harddisk an tried this in a startupskript:

Code:

for i in /dev/tty[1-8]; do setleds -D +num; done

but it didn't work. The Numlock is still off.

Any ideas?

**nishtya** · 09-15-2004, 02:25 AM

well, if you are using KDE you can go to control center>peripherals>keyboard and check the numlock on KDE startup box.

**Markus** · 09-15-2004, 06:55 AM

Is numlockx installed on Knoppix?
apt-get install numlockx

**someuser77** · 10-13-2006, 10:19 AM

thanks for the script wicking!

**maxIT** · 10-13-2006, 06:20 PM

Maybe you can do that via 'bios'.
Mine let me to set it.

I've tried the above command line, and it doesn't work, giving me an error message

Code:

root@box:/home/max# setleds -D +num
KDGETLED: Invalid argument
Error reading current led setting. Maybe stdin is not a VT?

This only happen however under X, trying the same in text-console all works properly!

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