From: vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) Subject: Re: Laptops and Linux and Lions and Tigers and... Date: 6 Mar 1993 21:48:14 GMT
becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
>\section{Kernel Modifications}
>I made the following changes that should be "generic"
> o I set the flag in the top-level 'linux/Makefile' to turn off NumLock
> at boot, since laptop keyboards typically have an "embedded"
> numeric keypad that is enabled by NumLock.
> KEYBOARD = -DKBD_DEFFLAGS=0x40 ...<other normal KEYBOARD flags>
This would be a useful change for me, but alas, the above modification had
no effect for me. Where did you get the value 0x40? Is it machine
specifc some how? (doesn't seem likely). Suggestions on how to get
this effect would be appreciated.
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