The solution is mentioned in the first few posts on this bug.. There are two ways to do it.. the long way (not really) check the post at the beginning area of the thread. The short version.. Shift+Numlock. That should fix it..
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197589 Title: Numeric keypad no longer works after upgrade Status in GNOME Control Center: Unknown Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “xserver-xorg-input-keyboard” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I have standard ps2 keyboard and ps2-to-usb adapter. Numeric keys section stopped to work after updating to hardy. Num Lock on or off doesn't help. The numeric keys above letters work ok. If I log in to virtual konsole (Ctrl-Alt-F2) numeric keys work. xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fi" EndSection [lspci] 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge [1106:0204] Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device [1025:006e] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter [1106:3108] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device [1025:006e] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/197589/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
