Deedra Waters <deedra at the-brannons.com> writes:
> 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?
I shouldn't let this thread dangle; we found a solution.
Basically, use setleds to set the current and default state of the
numlock at boot time.
There's a script to do this which is distributed with OpenRC on Gentoo.
But it sets the numlock, instead of clearing it.
I made a new script based on that one, but mine disables the numlock
instead. If you're on Gentoo, you can put the following script in
/etc/init.d and add it to your boot runlevel. Don't overwrite their
numlock script with it; give it a name of its own.
=== BEGIN SCRIPT ===
#!/sbin/runscript
description="Disable numlock for consoles"
ttyn=${rc_tty_number:-${RC_TTY_NUMBER:-12}}
depend()
{
need localmount
keyword -openvz -prefix -vserver -lxc
}
_setleds()
{
[ -z "$1" ] && return 1
local dev=/dev/tty t= i=1 retval=0
[ -d /dev/vc ] && dev=/dev/vc/
while [ $i -le $ttyn ]; do
setleds -D "$1"num < $dev$i || retval=1
: $(( i += 1 ))
done
return $retval
}
stop()
{
true
}
start()
{
ebegin "Disabling numlock on ttys"
_setleds -
eend $? "Failed to disable numlock"
}
=== END SCRIPT ===
