From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2331381F3 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 06:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45BC521C00E; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 06:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 251BB21C006 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 06:37:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id jt11so1185662pbb.40 for ; Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:37:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=ZGkkUIZgWqfLT0uRX3HCAUwXu/2y9poH8d2vFPVdtqo=; b=wBFm7WFlGcMQ2FWfgSwEjCzfxYNZq4EarTuKCynoMNzLyfNrmOADhtuJInprrEl1wa 0JbneNSE+YbxedztjYphXpGqIp7x4hfGbFJb6E6Qjf8UxrfsmeZy2omUJdeG8dLg+rGi bxkvrp4RshVlaOXHQrws5LWk8tNnRmgRktV+v/zllwooVOKF58RfVQgcQL1IuUnE5qK+ omDelhOiDkTkaPg7siHeyMVooiPwrhqQ9OlfkC6P9w3a64lIeOmjqX5QtL1RPKzgFEJ0 9ZXGTtTB2LAVwcVmA7GNszcRw8PnF87PR6GjzXVPqWgb576VdfO+DGy+PQlpAP+mCFo1 DYng== Received: by 10.66.89.42 with SMTP id bl10mr1620327pab.2.1354430264056; Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:37:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dethkomp.localnet (triband-mum-59.182.102.177.mtnl.net.in. [59.182.102.177]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ak10sm5900495pbd.24.2012.12.01.22.37.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:37:42 -0800 (PST) From: Yohan Pereira To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:09:16 +0530 Message-ID: <1540977.IXnsEoOt74@dethkomp> Organization: Leysa User-Agent: KMail/4.9.3 (Linux/3.6.8-gentoo; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 7534ecf0-b314-4b0f-82f0-6f5459c3832d X-Archives-Hash: d407551cc9c4abc42a335c3610d06c7a 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. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain