Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 06:39:16 Yohan Pereira wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc-status -s | grep
> numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a
> difference.
I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels -- just turn it off
with the key -- I am pretty sure even your laptop has such a simulated
key.
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