On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 02:15 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:21 +0300 > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> David Relson wrote: > >>> G'day, > >>> > >>> Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, > >>> found that I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow > >>> keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I can use the comparable > >>> keys between the alpha keys and the keypad. > >>> > >>> I'm guessing that it's an xorg.conf issue but don't know what to > >>> check. > >>> > >>> Any suggestions about xorg.conf or other things to check and > >>> examine? > >> If you're using the evdev driver for your keyboard, make sure your > >> desktop applet that is responsible for keyboard layouts (both Gnome > >> and KDE have one) is configured to use an "evdev managed keyboard" > >> rather than something like "pc104" and the like. > > > > Here's the keyboard section. Looks like I'm using pc104. > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "kbd" > > Option "CoreKeyboard" > > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > > Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle,grp_led:scroll" > > Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys" > > EndSection > > > > The numeric keypad's keys seem to be quite totally nonfunctional. The > > cursor control keys do nothing in OpenOffice, emacs, claws-mail, etc > > (while the cursor keys to the keypad's left all work fine). With > > NumLock on, the keypad's numbers do nothing. > > For reference, this is mine: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > # [various other stuff] > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > >
My numeric keypad hasn't been working either. I altered my xorg.conf to match the segments listed above and restarted xdm and it still doesn't work. I'm using camille ~ # uname -a Linux camille 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Sun Jul 20 08:49:07 CDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
