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deconstrained

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Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 49

Errors when enabling numlock on bootup

I added the following line to /etc/rc.local recently:

for tty in /dev/tty*; do /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < "$tty"; done

although this does enable numlock on bootup (yay) I see the following error message during boot:

KDGKBLED: Input/output error
Error reading current flags setting. Maybe you are not on the console?

What can I do to change this? Also, I'm using a USB keyboard... might this have something to do with it?

djszapi

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Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: Errors when enabling numlock on bootup

Hello deconstrained!

Are these ones good for you ?
http://www.semiantics.com/?p=74
http://techie-buzz.com/tips-and-tricks/ … boots.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ts-611652/

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deconstrained

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Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 49

Re: Errors when enabling numlock on bootup

No; my Arch box doesn't run xorg; numlockx is for enabling it in a GUI, and I'm trying to get it on my tty consoles.

Nevertheless, I just now found a solution: replace the "*" with a "?" wildcard; I only have/use six consoles, so tty1, tty2, etc... get selected, and this works without giving me any errors.