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On 08/01/2014 22:05, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 01/05/2014 01:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I have Gentoo on a first gen Acer Aspire One. The teeny keyboard doesn't |
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>> have a numpad, it's simulated by using the right-hand bunch of keys and |
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>> you engage it with Fn-F11 |
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>> It's recently started booting up with the numpad on which is annoying at |
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>> first login as my username is not a3an0 .... The Num LED is also off at |
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>> this stage. There used to be a way to set numlock on or off in |
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>> baselayout/openrc but now I can't find it. "grep -r numlock /etc" |
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>> returns nothing relevant, and /etc/init.d/numlock is to enable it with |
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>> no function to disable it (I have this script disable in default runlevel) |
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>> How is this done these days? |
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>> Should I call setleds in rc.local somewhere? |
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> Are you booting into X? If you are try x11-misc/numlockx. |
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> I think all you have to do is use `numlockx off` and it should turn it off. |
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> I had to do that for my laptop, same problem. |
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It all seems to have sorted itself out somehow. I removed everything |
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related to numlock and power cycled. The netbook now boots with numlock off. |
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I'm not at all sure how this works on this keyboard. Perhaps the |
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hardware remembers the numlock state before power-down and resets it at |
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power-up? |
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I'm going to let sleeping dogs lie and leave this issue alone for now. |
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If I'm lucky it won't recur :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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