Number Pad not working with F10 x64 on HP DV9000 series notebook

[GreyWizzard]

Here is something completely anoying that I just found out about my new F10 x64 installation.

For reasons I can't even begin to figure out, the number pad does NOT work.

i can get the num lock light to come on, but pressing the keys there produces no love at all. Right before I installed F10, my F8 x64 had been working flawlessly for a VERY long time and I have been able to verify that the keypad still functions both with the M$ Windoze Vi$ta virus and a live Knoppix CD.

Since this is the first time I have had this issue, I don't even know where to look to consider solving this.

I did try the System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard and all of the HP layouts listed there, but I still can't get anything more than the Num Lock light to come on and go out.

What am I missing?

[GreyWizzard]

I have recently found out (completely by accident) that this F10 install is seeing my number pad as a mouse of sorts.

if I press and hold on the 4, the mouse pointer moves to the left, the 6 moves the mouse to the right, the 9 moves it up and to the right, etc... The 5 button in the middle is just like clicking on the left mouse button.

It has been suggested to me, and it makes sense, that this would probably be something in the xorg.conf but I do not know these files well enough to even come close to what would cause or even what to look for in these files.

Anybody willing to lend a hand?

My current xorg.conf looks like:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Doesn't even look as if the keypad settings are there now. Hmm......

[Dan]

(Added from PM -- to bump the thread. Anybody else notice this?)

AHA!

Don't have a solution yet, but I tracked down the symptoms, and found what caused it.

Short version? I bought an external keyboard today, and hooked it up, and presto! If the numlock is lit, the built in keypad acts like a mouse. Turn the numlock off ... it acts like a number pad.

The external keyboard, however behaves normally.

So ... you're not seeing things. Or if you are ... you're not alone anymore!

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Still workin' on it! Have you got a bug report number yet?

[shayh]

worked fine until this week. don't know what the change was.
I'm using a Logitech keyboard on an i386 Fedora10

[shayh]

you have to disable the “Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard” checkbox in keyboard preferences

[barrierpeak]

This happened to me some months ago while running Fedora 9 on a desktop with a PS/2 keyboard using a PS/2-to-USB adapter. Number pad worked fine since installing F9 last year. All of a sudden my number pad quit working. I don't do a lot of updates on this machine and with so many other distractions, I chalked it up to a malfunctioning keyboard and just started using the other numbers on they keyboard.

Today my keyboard starting resetting on me (number pad and other lights coming on and going off), and the number pad still wasn't working, so I figured I search for a fix.

I swapped to an identical keyboard from another machine, and got the same behavior with the number pad not working. I found this thread and then verified that my mouse was being controlled by number pad. Connecting the replacement keyboard using the default PS/2 adapter didn't change the result.

I pulled up System...Preferences...Hardware...Keyboard, and on the "Mouse Keys" tab, I saw that "Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard" was checked. I have no recollection of selecting this, so I thought that it might have been set after a yum update.

I searched a little more and found this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=188820
Apparently, typing "CTRL-SHIFT-NUMLOCK" toggles this setting.! My guess is that I inadvertently hit that combination of keys at some point and caused the number pad to quit functioning as a number pad.

Keyboard is much more fun to use now.

~Mike.

[Dan]

Well ... no answers yet, but in my case, I traced it down to ...









(You knew this was coming ... right?)













Buggy Hardware.







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