Jan Engelhardt, le Mon 14 Jan 2008 02:40:08 +0100, a écrit : > On Jan 14 2008 00:52, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >In many cases, one prefers to have e.g. the NumLock on by default. In > >many cases, one doesn't want to have it by default, e.g. on laptops. > > > >Distributions actually have a very hard time trying to set this > >correctly after the kernel boot, and that doesn't work for new consoles > >that are created via the openvt(1) command anyway. This hence adds a > >keyboard.default_leds boot parameter that permits to configure the > >default keyboard LEDs. > > Apart from openvt being able to find the first unused tty, > what is openvt good for? (Read: I could just as well run > `bash </dev/tty8 >/dev/tty8 2>/dev/tty8`) But it is a burden (you forgot '&' btw ;) ). Also, openvt properly sets the controlling tty, can run a login shell, etc... Anyway, be it openvt or bash, the LED issue exists :) Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
