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Re: num-lock

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jan 18 00:05:46 1999

To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:47:34 EST."
             <199901180347.WAA04001@drake.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:05:34 EST
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

In message <199901180347.WAA04001@drake.MIT.EDU>, yak@mit.edu writes:
>I remember a while ago someone asked about how to keep pcvt from
>turning numlock on all the time, because it screwed up his laptop
>keyboard (it had the numeric keypad on the main group instead of a
>seperate group of keys).  I'm having the same problem, but can't
>remember the solution.  Can someone refresh my memory?  Thanks.

[contents-vnder-pressvre!jhawk] ~> cd ~netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt
[contents-vnder-pressvre!jhawk] ~netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt> ls
CVS           Etc           README.FIRST  pcvt_conf.h   pcvt_drv.c    pcvt_hdr.h    pcvt_kbd.c    pcvt_out.c    pcvt_tbl.h
Doc           Makefile      Util          pcvt_cons.h   pcvt_ext.c    pcvt_ioctl.h  pcvt_kbd.h    pcvt_sup.c    pcvt_vtf.c
[contents-vnder-pressvre!jhawk] ~netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt> grep NUMLOCK [A-Z]*
[contents-vnder-pressvre!jhawk] ~netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt> cd Doc
[contents-vnder-pressvre!jhawk] ~netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/Doc> ls
Acknowledgements     CVS                  Charsets             INSTALL.FreeBSD-2.0  Keyboard-Layout.VT   ToDo
Bibliography         ChangeLog            EscapeSequences      INSTALL.NetBSD-1.0   Manifest
BugList              CharGen              FAQ                  Keyboard-Layout.HP   TestedHardware
[contents-vnder-pressvre!jhawk] ~netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/Doc> !g
grep NUMLOCK [A-Z]*
ChangeLog:  PCVT_INHIBIT_NUMLOCK (for notebook owners :-), support for EGA/VGA
FAQ:    options  "PCVT_INHIBIT_NUMLOCK"


--jhawk

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