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On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel |
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> is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it |
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> maps the numeric keypad to the right-hand home position (J->1, K->2, |
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> L->3, U->4, etc.). After sshing into the machine and booting back |
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> into 3.2, everything is fine again. |
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> There must have been a new kernel setting that I missed when I did a |
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> "make oldconfig" which defaults to an unusable settings. I haven't |
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> been able to come up with a Google search that provides anything |
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> remotely relevent. |
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> Does anybody recognize this problem? |
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Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to the |
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keys like you described, so when Num Lock is toggled those keys function as |
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the num pad. |
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- Yohan Pereira |
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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference |
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between a mermaid and a seal. |
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-- Mark Twain |