Eureka!

I know this one may sound a bit mundane. However, it did take me this long to figure out how to get this working, so if you’re wondering how to get Linspire to boot up with your NumLock on, and you happen to be browsing my Blog, then this is for you:

1. Click Launch -> Settings -> Control Center.
2. Selecte Peripherals -> Keyboard.
3. Make sure that “NumLock on KDE Startup” is selected to “Turn On”.
4. Click “OK”.

That’s that! Happy computing!

Ever since I installed Linspire, I couldn’t figure out how to give standard users access to the other (windows) partitions on my computer. However, the admin user had access, but it’s a pain to always log in and out of that account just to copy over a few files, etc.

After some resarching and asking around on the Linspire forums, I was presented with the following answer:

1. Open /etc/fstab with Kate or a similar text editor.
2. Change the partition entries to include ‘umask=0′ in the options column (the 4th column that also has entries like ‘exec,suid,users’, etc.
3. Save the file and to a quick restart.

Now your entries should look something like:

/dev/hda1    /mnt/hda1        ntfs      noatime,user,exec,dev,suid,umask=0  0 0

I would like to thank pvdl-of-afu.com of the Linspire forum, and all the others that made an effort to try to solve this dilemna. Also, I’d like to wish pvdl-of-afu.com all the best with his upcoming book on Linspire: http://afu.com!