Re: wscons.conf ledstate and screen issues

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost> wrote:

> After installing 8.0 amd64 and tweaking wscons.conf, I experienced exactly
> the same issue as in this old message:
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2012/09/24/msg011493.html
> 
> I would like to have num lock (and its led) active at the login screen.
> 
> # wsconsctl -w ledstate=2
> 
> works for the current session. I put the line
> 
> setvar  wskbd   ledstate        2
> 
> in /etc/wscons.conf. After a reboot, this configuration is correctly
> applied, as shown by the led and the screen messages; however, the *first*
> key that is pressed (whatever it is) causes the default ledstate=0 to be
> restored.
> What could it be the problem?

From a quick look - ledstate only controls the lights, not the
internal state of the keyboard driver (that handles numlock &c).

-uwe