no numbers

[Bob Hemus]

Messing with keyboard this went out before I finished.


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:06 -0800, Bob Hemus wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:27 -0500, Rick Bowers wrote:
> > At Wednesday 1/9/2008 10:45 PM, you wrote:
> > >On Jan 9, 2008 3:59 PM, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> > > > O.K. I've screwed up again. My number pad seems to be fsck'ed up.  I
> > > > haven't checked the CMOS, but I didn't change it. Things were
> > working
> > > > well a couple of days ago.  Then, no number keypad?  Running
> > Ubuntu
> > > > 7.10.  What could I have done wrong?
> > >
> > >There was a bug recently (kernel? xorg? can't remember) that caused
> > >the num lock light to be non functional (status did not change) but
> > >the numpad was actually enabled/disabled when the num lock button was
> > >toggled.
> > >
> > >This was fixed fairly rapidly on sidux (Debian sid level),  but I
> > >don't know about Ubuntu 7.10. I'll dig back into the forum to see if
> > I
> > >can find more details.
> > 
> > Just a thought, but have you tried pushing the NUMLOCK key on your 
> > keyboard to see if it changes things? I'm sure you have, but ...
> > 
> > ~Rick

It is a GE hi-fallutin keyboard. My old one died 'cause of coffee & ice
tea in the slots.  I bought this a year or so ago and it has been fine
until last week.  I up-graded to 7.10, but it continued to work until
one day last week.  I don't know if I pushed one of the weird keys or
what?  I just went back and re-pushed every thing.  Also went into the
BIOS.  Every thing there was set O.K.  Only reason I bought this
keyboard my other went gunny sack and this was the only one, where I
was, had.  Guess I'll look around for a generic keyboard next time I get
to town.
Bob
>
> >This was fixed fairly rapidly on sidux (Debian sid level),  but I
> >don't know about Ubuntu 7.10. I'll dig back into the forum to see if
> I
> >can find more details.
>Collins Richey