The control of numlock is a bios option. If your bios option is off, then grub 1.99 (the latest grub in debian whezy, and probably your distro too, can override the bios setting by adding keystrokes to the keyboard buffer before starting the kernel. In the info for grub, look at set and key information. Good luck! D. Curtis Willoughby--ka0vba > From speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org Thu Jun 27 22:07:48 2013 > Envelope-to: postman at localhost > Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:07:48 -0600 > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on > new-mail2.hypermall.com > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RDNS_NONE > autolearn=disabled version=3.2.1 > X-Original-To: speakup at reisers.ca > X-Greylist: delayed 375 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at befuddled; > Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:07:14 EDT > From: Deedra Waters <deedra at the-brannons.com> > Subject: weird speakup or hardware bug? > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > X-BeenThere: speakup at linux-speakup.org > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 > List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup.linux-speakup.org> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/speakup>, > <mailto:speakup-request at linux-speakup.org?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/> > List-Post: <mailto:speakup at linux-speakup.org> > List-Help: <mailto:speakup-request at linux-speakup.org?subject=help> > List-Subscribe: <http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup>, > <mailto:speakup-request at linux-speakup.org?subject=subscribe> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 > > I'm not even sure where to begin. switching from arch to gentoo seems to > have changed certain things like my ethernet now works? > > But, what's happening here is that for all of my consoles, speakup has > the numlock as on and i have to change it before i can use speakup > commands. Anyone seen this before? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
