Well are you wondering why the devil linux turns the numlock light off right after it starts booting? Sorry I don't know, but I know how to make it come back on :)<br />
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These instructions are mostly distro-independent, the only exception is the location and name of the rc.local file (it's a script that runs last at boot).<br />
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Edit your <code>/etc/rc.d/rc.local</code> file. Add this to it:<br />
<pre>echo -n &quot;Turning NumLock ON... &quot;
for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do
setleds -D +num &lt; $tty
done
echo &quot;done.&quot;</pre><br />
Thank you ace for sharing this little bit of code!<br />
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Now, you will notice that the number lock is on in the consoles but not in X (I hear some newer version of KDE fixed this but not Gnome or XFCE or any other window manager). Sadly, to fix this you need to download and install a program :( called numlockx. Look for it on freshmeat.net. Just follow the instruction and you're done.<br />
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On my slackware 10.1 I did:<br />
<pre>make
make install
make xsetup
make xinitrc
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and rebooted, worked great.<br />
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Have fun everyone :)