On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel > is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it > maps the numeric keypad to the right-hand home position (J->1, K->2, > L->3, U->4, etc.). After sshing into the machine and booting back > into 3.2, everything is fine again. > > There must have been a new kernel setting that I missed when I did a > "make oldconfig" which defaults to an unusable settings. I haven't > been able to come up with a Google search that provides anything > remotely relevent. > > Does anybody recognize this problem?
Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to the keys like you described, so when Num Lock is toggled those keys function as the num pad. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain