Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

[Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>]

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.
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