On 12/23/05, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chinook wrote: > > post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] > > > > There are three little items I have not been able to resolve yet though, > > and would appreciate any pointers: > > > > 1) When booting up, can the keyboard Num Lock be defaulted to On? I > > keep forgetting to hit the Num Lock key before any digits in passwords > > and it's an unconscious habit to use the number pad rather than the top > > row of the character section of the keyboard. > > Yes there is a BIOS setting and BIOS turns it on, but ??? turns it off > before one gets to the login. /etc/console-tools/config has no effect. > > I did find the mentioned numlockx package and installed it. It's a CLI > tool, so in what script where would I employ it*? >
I think you could put it in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /etc/X11/Xsession to enable it globally. I think putting it in /home/username/.xsession would enable for you once you logged in. I am a little vague which X config files (xinitrc vs xsession) are supposed to do what, so I just put stuff in them and test to see if it has the desired effect. > > > > 2) I have my BIOS quieted, but Grub (I guess) is rather verbose. I > > changed the setting in etc/default/rcS to VERBOSE=no but it doesn't seem > > to make any difference :-( Is there a way to quiet the Linux boot? > > MJD: I guess your comment to add "quiet splash" to the kernel command > line in the grub config file is too general. Maybe if you would note > the file path and line number within the file, I might be able to catch > up with you :-) I found what I thought was the file but could not see > where to edit it. /boot/grub/menu.lst look for a line like this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro and make it more like this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro quiet splash If there is stuff after the ro (eg vga=771) just put quiet splash at the end. "vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686" might be "vmlinuz-2.4.27.2-386" or some such. You probably don't want to do that in the section labeled (recovery mode), since if you need recovery mode, you probably want to see what is going on. > PS: I also meant to ask if one could switch back and forth between > Gnome and KDE. Rather than ask what the advantages are <b>to me</b>, I > was thinking of seeing for myself what KDE is like :-) If you are using GDM, KDM or XDM (in other words if the boot process ends with a GUI instead of a command line), you should have drop down list of installed Window Managers/Desktop Environments.
