I had the same issue than you using lxde with openbox in hardy on a Pentium II: the Num Lock worked but the led did not work correctly. I solved this issue in my system by just adding the following line at the end of the /etc/init.d/rc.local file:
numlockx on It seems that numlockx firstly says that there is not Xorg present, but after this, when gdm and lxde starts, the led and numlock become on. Thanks a lot to the community for their extraordinary job and also to the ubuntu team for the wonderfull Ubuntu!!! -- [hardy] numlockx does not turn num lock keyboard light on. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218202 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs