Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may
also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)...
I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the
EXACT same problem as WTS.
The problem appears to be an X keyboard mapping issue. In my situation,
the users only use the number keypad for entering numbers. So I created
the following
~/.Xmodmap:
keycode 79=7
keycode 80=8
keycode 81=9
keycode 83=4
keycode 84=5
keycode 85=6
keycode 87=1
keycode 88=2
keycode 89=3
keycode 90=0
keycode 91=period
keycode 86 = plus
keycode 77 =
This essentially hard codes the number keypad and (theoretically)
disables the Num Lock button ("keycode 77")--theoretically because the
number keypad now works perfectly but only if the Num Lock LED is ON on
the client side (Windows, in my case).
I still don't fully understand why or how this works because the number
keypad has always worked within X during a VNC session, problems arose
only during a Win4Lin or QEMU session and only within those sessions.
Anyway, thought this might help others who may be having the same or
similar problems.
~ Tom
John Jolet wrote:
> that no longer exists.
> at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they
> said use vanilla sources and patch.
>
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
>
>> I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the
>> problem in your version.
>>
>> How do I go about getting a "win4lin-sources" kernel? I was unable to
>> one anywhere. Maybe I would have better luck with that.
>>
>> */Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>/* wrote:
>>
>> On Thu December 8 2005 16:47, Tom Smith wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, my brain's mush... I'm just a whole lot of tired! The
>> problem is
>> > that the Num Lock keypad doesn't work.
>>
>> I just tried it and it works for me. I'm running win4lin-5.1.1 (from
>> portage) with Win98SE and my custom win4lin-sources-2.6.11-r11
>> kernel, which
>> is just a 2.6.11 gentoo-sources ebuild with the Win4Lin patches
>> added.
>>
>> --
>> Ron
>>
>>
>
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