Bug 91765
Summary: | Kernel resets or ignores BIOS numlock setting | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <lsof> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | mitr |
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Hardware: | athlon | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-06-05 15:31:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Need Real Name
2003-05-27 21:24:28 UTC
At which point does the light go out? It's difficult to say - but one of the messages I read as the lines of text flashed passed mentioned that the ramdisk driver had been initiliased. So, after grub and before init runs. The kernel resets Num Lock. The comments in code mention that on some laptops, Num Lock switched on causes keys uiojklm,. (or other near keys) to act as a numeric keypad instead of letters. I have no idea whether this is true though. Its one of those "religious" issues. Red Hat could decide to do different things to the mainstream but for such a minor item it is not clear it is helpful. In addition it gets more complicated once people start hotplugging USB keyboards.. |