From: ashley@cco.caltech.edu (Allen M. Ashley) Subject: NumLock off Date: 7 Aug 1993 22:15:35 GMT
Earlier Ed Carp published the way to get Linux to come up
with the NumLock key off: edit the KEYBOARD line in the file
/usr/src/linux/Makefile and add -DKBD_DEFFLAGS=0x40 to the
end of that line. I did that and I want to add a few items.
When you run make it asks you a number of questions about
your system, and the file system you have installed. The overall
compilation takes a long time.
When you are done you have to copy the Image file it creates over
to your root directory. You have to re-install LILO again. It seems
to me that the system boots a bit faster, perhaps because I said
no to some things that were defaults, like NFS.
Thanks Ed, the NumLock on was one of life's little annoyances.