I have a seriously bad problem with my OpenSolaris 2008.11 desktop. When I have
the num lock turned on and try to type in numbers with the numeric keypad on
the right hand side of the keyboard, it very slowly moves the mouse cursor
around. How do I turn this off?
I'm normally not a big complainer on this forum, but we had a partial network
outage at work in the data center today.... phone lines were ringing off the
hook etc.... and while I was running around trying to fix what was wrong with
some of the CISCO switches and unplug the offending colos that were screwing up
the network my boss went on my 2008.11 desktop and tried going into Nagios and
the MRTG graphs and some of the command line networking tools we use and he
typed in a bunch of IP addresses really fast on the numeric keypad and somehow
typing in lots of numbers really fast on the keypad moved the mouse cursor
around like crazy, opened up the GUI package manager and started removing,
installing, and updating hundreds of random packages on my desktop in
super-slow motion (you think the IPS GUI is slow normally, try installing and
uninstalling a ton of packages when there's a broadcast storm on the
network)..... lots of yelling, wailing and gnashing of teeth ensued...
Anyway, my boss and supervisor are pissed. I pay my bills doing Linux sysadmin
work in an all Red Hat Enterprise Linux shop, so I'm already kind of a
borderline outcast running OpenSolaris 2008.11 instead of Linux on my desktop,
and some of the bugs I've run into doing pkg-image updates before have gotten a
few snickers and "OpenSolaris sucks!" comments from the prejudicial Linux guys
in the NOC (snickers from pretty much everyone except the "I must compile and
run the newest most bleeding edge version of everything" Gentoo users- they
have even more errors and their desktops are even more broken than mine is half
the time, if you can believe that).
Anyway, to cut to the point- if I can't get this problem resolved in the next
48 hours, chances are I'm going to be bullied by management into replacing my
current OpenSolaris 2008.11 desktop at work with an Ubuntu / RHEL / Fedora /
ArchLinux one that "just works" like everyone else's desktop does.
I had a similar problem before where I sometimes got strange Turkish umlaut
symbols everytime I tried to get double quotes (shift + the comma key) in some
of my shell scripts and I figured out how to turn that off by hitting control
and the space bar key at the same time, which brought the normal US American
English keyboard settings back and turned the German umlaut ones off. However,
now my problem is that with the numlock light turned on or turned off the
number "8" key on the number pad moves the cursor up, the number "2" key moves
it down, the number "6" key moves the cursor to the right and the number "4"
key moves the cursor to the left.
Somebody please give me some kind of a hint on how to turn this off and get my
numeric keypad back. I've already tried using six different keyboards (both USB
and normal keyboards) and the problem persists through reboots and across many
different brands of keyboards. My job involves typing in lots of IP addresses,
subnet masks and gateways very fast and I'm crippled without the numeric keypad.
Here's my configuration info:
anonym...@solarisunix:~$ cat /etc/default/kbd | grep -i layout | grep -v '#'
LAYOUT=US-English
anonym...@solarisunix:~$ cat /etc/release
OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 19 November 2008
anonym...@solarisunix:~$ prtdiag -v
System Configuration: System manufacturer P5K-VM
BIOS Configuration: American Megatrends Inc. 0401 06/07/2007
==== Processor Sockets ====================================
Version Location Tag
-------------------------------- --------------------------
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz LGA775
==== Memory Device Sockets ================================
Type Status Set Device Locator Bank Locator
----------- ------ --- ------------------- ----------------
DDR2 in use 0 DIMM0 BANK0
DDR2 in use 0 DIMM1 BANK1
DDR2 in use 0 DIMM2 BANK2
DDR2 in use 0 DIMM3 BANK3
==== On-Board Devices =====================================
Onboard Ethernet
==== Upgradeable Slots ====================================
ID Status Type Description
--- --------- ---------------- ----------------------------
1 available PCI Express PCIEX16_1
1 available PCI PCI_1
2 in use PCI PCI_2
3 available PCI-X PCIEX4_1
anonym...@solarisunix:~$
And P.S. my identity remains Anon Ymous because I can't afford to let my love
of Solaris jeopardize my prospects of finding and keeping future employment
with my Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. I don't want to be googled during a
job interview and have people find out I secretly prefer OpenSolaris to Red Hat.
Thanks.
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