Bug 91765 - Kernel resets or ignores BIOS numlock setting
Summary: Kernel resets or ignores BIOS numlock setting
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-27 21:24 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:54 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-06-05 15:31:07 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-05-27 21:24:28 UTC
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Description of problem:
My BIOS is set so that numlock should be on.

When Red Hat has finished booting, it is not on.
Windows had no problem.

How reproducible:
Always

Additional info:
Originally filed as bug 87946.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-05-27 21:28:52 UTC
At which point does the light go out?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2003-05-28 17:27:56 UTC
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.

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmac 2003-05-29 13:15:40 UTC
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.

Comment 4 Alan Cox 2003-06-05 15:31:07 UTC
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..



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