Kyle Liddell posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:44:56 -0500:
> I've got this weird X bug: Sometimes X will have the numpad stuck on > mouse control mode (where numbers move the mouse, + is a left click, > etc...normally activated by holding down NumLock for 5secs), and I can > find no way to get it to go back to normal input. Holding down NumLock > doesn't fix it, and I can find no documentation about a way to poke X to > make it stop. I'm posting to this particular list because as far as I can > remember, this has only happened on this computer (amd64 + nvidia...don't > think I've ever had problems with 32bit CPUs). Has anybody had this > happen? Any clues at all? When I've had strange stuff like that happen, and from the posts of others I've read, the culprit more often than not turns out to be the keyboard going bad, maybe because it got wet or something, or for a wireless keyboard, a low battery or a bad link between the keyboard and its pickup). So... check to see if your numlock key is jammed on... It might be worthwhile to try swapping out the keyboard, just to be sure. If you're not in a place with others available, consider buying a junk keyboard for backup and testing purposes. They're available for well under US$10, if you look around. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
