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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 06:39:16 Yohan Pereira wrote:
> 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.

You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc-status -s | grep 
numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a 
difference.
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Regards,
Mick

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