[ltp] Weird keyboard problem

[Ted Cook]

Niels Stargardt wrote:
> Hi, I guess you see the light with a number in a house is on. 
Although it appears that the light is a little dim in my house. ;-)
So at
> your notebook the Num-Lock is set. You can change the behavior if you
> go to the control-center (hope you use KDE), there you can change the
> behavior at "devices, keyboard". (I don't know exactly the name,
> because I have a German-version running). If login again, everything
> should work fine. You could solve the problem the same way under
> WinXP (I think you must press Shift+Num/Roll). Unfortunately I
> haven't figured out how to change this behavior under WinXP. Hope
> this will solve your problem. Niels

There was an option under the Xandros control center to turn off numlock 
on startup, which solved the problem. Couldn't find any way to turn it 
on/off under Linux when undocked, but I'm happy with it off. Thanks.
> 
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:04:51 -0700 Ted Cook <tcook024@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'm having a very weird problem with my T42. I have a mini-dock,
>> and haven't used it off the dock for quite some time. When I remove
>> it from the dock, some of my keys do not work properly.
>> Specifically, the u, i, o, p, j, k, l, etc. all become mapped to
>> the alternative values printed in the lower right corner of the
>> key. For example, when I depress the u, I get a 4, when I press the
>> i a 5.
>> 
>> This happens both under Linux (Xandros) and XP. When placed back in
>>  the mini-dock, the keys on both the standard and my external 
>> keyboard function properly.
>> 
>> One other note, it appears the keys function properly at the login
>>  prompt, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to type my password.
>> 
>> I hope there is a simple and quick fix for this, as I am leaving 
>> town tomorrow, and I was counting on using this on the road.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> -Ted -- Ted Cook Director of US Business Development Linux
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