no numbers

[Lonni J Friedman]

Perhaps i'm just slow, but I've yet to see an actual description of
what exactly is wrong.  Is the numlock light not coming on (and the
numbers fail to work), or is the light coming on and the numbers dont'
work?

On 1/10/08, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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