weird speakup or hardware bug?

weird speakup or hardware bug?

[Deedra Waters]

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?

Re: weird speakup or hardware bug?

[covici]

Seems to be something in recent kernels, its the first thing I do when
the system boots and I get control.

Deedra Waters <deedra@the-brannons.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
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How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: weird speakup or hardware bug?

[D. Curtis Willoughby]

The control of numlock is a bios option.  If your bios option is
off, then grub 1.99 (the latest grub in debian whezy, and probably
your distro too, can override the bios setting by adding keystrokes
to the keyboard buffer before starting the kernel.  In the info
for grub, look at set and key information.  Good luck!
D. Curtis Willoughby--ka0vba


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> 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?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: weird speakup or hardware bug?

[Chris Brannon]

Deedra Waters <deedra@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 ===