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Kyle Liddell posted <1128404697.15000.48.camel@athlon>, excerpted below, |
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on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:44:56 -0500: |
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> I've got this weird X bug: Sometimes X will have the numpad stuck on |
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> mouse control mode (where numbers move the mouse, + is a left click, |
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> etc...normally activated by holding down NumLock for 5secs), and I can |
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> find no way to get it to go back to normal input. Holding down NumLock |
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> doesn't fix it, and I can find no documentation about a way to poke X to |
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> make it stop. I'm posting to this particular list because as far as I can |
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> remember, this has only happened on this computer (amd64 + nvidia...don't |
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> think I've ever had problems with 32bit CPUs). Has anybody had this |
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> happen? Any clues at all? |
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When I've had strange stuff like that happen, and from the posts of |
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others I've read, the culprit more often than not turns out to be the |
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keyboard going bad, maybe because it got wet or something, or for a |
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wireless keyboard, a low battery or a bad link between the keyboard and |
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its pickup). |
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So... check to see if your numlock key is jammed on... It might be |
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worthwhile to try swapping out the keyboard, just to be sure. If you're |
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not in a place with others available, consider buying a junk keyboard for |
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backup and testing purposes. They're available for well under US$10, if |
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you look around. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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