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. -- Regards, Mick
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