[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-12-02, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com> 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.
[...]
>> Does anybody recognize this problem?
>
> Is this a laptop? with no num pad?

No, it's a PS2 keyboard with no num pad (IBM spacesaver II).

> 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.

That's how it works with the 3.2 kernel.  With 3.5, the numlock light
is on, and the numlock key doesn't turn it off like it does with 3.2.

-- 
Grant