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 CFBE51381F3 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 08:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA8AE21C01E; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 08:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC0D4E0587 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 08:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f181.google.com with SMTP id t11so650667wey.40 for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:06:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=6qZuMI37mO339OlwNvLDZRciUBmDpZ/2wI505MXUfww=; b=uSJFby7bCp9jBNwSaPx2Ju1QcdboPrzSQYFznqAo5dQRMn7BQn7wdwPAXHy0bXtdn6 PFYNcBwKLEcuVeoxM3uM27Bz4SH+WUMm8ZfCO0+KtKSH+IZsb1x8VTmUIBObQ6uoneOc 2vLL5CRKhubOCs8J3GWH49FLNfZRSdUgfKBV6EZrEnKShDFJ5u809CN03CPGK/8AGhPg 5bbR72twpXB7yZyzntjI+ZBtWJTNQekW4Rfh5v//hZje1sBkaZKQMgJzhWCndcXRfjEg 42QJ+94xTr3K4VH5zK5hW9sIVydrIGtLbb0Msg5XNMABsBUCTYJIgcu7yaoEFoJPmKtB Fi5w== Received: by 10.180.102.2 with SMTP id fk2mr4517551wib.10.1354435619424; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d9sm6112840wiw.0.2012.12.02.00.06.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:06:57 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 08:06:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.5.7-gentoo; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <1540977.IXnsEoOt74@dethkomp> In-Reply-To: <1540977.IXnsEoOt74@dethkomp> 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-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart13282629.q4a9KYvcWd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201212020806.55695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fd4c36fb-2f47-4e9f-b3b9-6e5e2f662a6a X-Archives-Hash: 83efe42676cc7c25e2f6ad7d8ff2c9d1 --nextPart13282629.q4a9KYvcWd Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Does anybody recognize this problem? >=20 > Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to t= he > 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=20 numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a=20 difference. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart13282629.q4a9KYvcWd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlC7DB8ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbZiACgth2nx+DbeWwup+aL0Y7RCA7u YkMAoISKc4GRpi9QyOhFNhf3FFiP1ftk =SRop -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13282629.q4a9KYvcWd--