DHell
By glazou on Saturday 20 December 2003, 09:52 - Computing - Permalink
I can't be the only one noticing the problem... My laptop is a Dell Inspiron, French keyboard. When I turn on the laptop, the Numerical Keyboard light is erroneously on about 50% of the time. The BIOS says the num keyboard is disabled on startup but still, the machine boots with the num keyboard on and I have to turn it off manually hitting the num keyboard key... I had the same problem with Netscape's Dell CPxJ, Amazon's CPiA and even before EDF's CPiA.
It starts driving me crazy and I did not find online a solution to the problem. Suggestions anyone ?
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si tu es sous linux (comment pourrait-il en entre autrement
dans un des scripts de démarage de ton compte ou par defaut (ou dans un script de /etc/init.d/ special)
utilise la commande "/usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock on" ou un nom de commande avec "*numlock*" dedans dans ce meme repertoire (ca doit dépendre des distribs
Dam, ta réponse n'aide pas. Cela se passe avant le bootstrap système. Dès l'allumage de la machine et le boot du BIOS, la touche est activée. Je ne cherche pas à "l'éteindre" au niveau de l'OS, je cherche à ne pas l'allumer au niveau BIOS...
Suggestion #1 Don't buy another dell
Juste pour info même si ça ne semble pas répondre au prb (tjr bon à savoir), sous Windows NT4 ou +, il faut aller dans la BDR ici :
HKCU\Control Panel\Keyboard
ou pour le logon HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard
et modifier la valeur de la clé InitialKeyboardIndicators (0 pour désactivé, 2 pour activé)
Sinon, un post sur un forum d'hardware.fr ou simplement un mail au support Dell ?
Assuming you always run X windows, then you probably want "numlockx", but the original site at dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/e... seems to be unreachable for me at least - try the FreeBSD port at www.freshports.org/x11/nu... instead.
BTW, maybe it's a BIOS bug and you need a firmware upgrade (e.g. from support.dell.com/ )?
Ironically, for desktop keyboards, you actually *do* want numlock by default - rather than going around all the BIOS'es at work and changing them by hand, I just ran "numlockx on" as part of the gdm initialisation script (/etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default).
It know it doesn't help you with your "numlock is on straight after BIOS has inited", but at least it'll get turned off before you log in if you use numlockx and you'll not have to press numlock ever again