Mailing List Archive: ARGH! XOrg refuses anything but numbers from the keypad..

ARGH! XOrg refuses anything but numbers from the keypad..

Oct 20, 2004, 12:54 PM

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Hi,

A few days ago I've changed from xfree to xorg. The whole change went smoothly
but for one thing. OR something has changed in xorg, or the installer messed
with my setup. But since the change my numpad refuses to do anything else
than numbers. The numlock switch nicely turns on/off the light.
Shift-control-numlock idem. But the only thing getting out is numbers.

I've been changing the XkbOptions and XkbTypes to add keypad(microsoft) to no
avail and all in all I'm getting so frustrated that I'm considering going
back to xfree.

So, anybody with a hint. Where does xorg expect these things to be changed (as
the XF86Config doesn't seem to be the place) Anything else I can check?
Anything at all?

Gerhard

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Re: ARGH! XOrg refuses anything but numbers from the keypad.. [ In reply to ]

tom at tomaw

Oct 20, 2004, 1:56 PM

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On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 21:54 +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago I've changed from xfree to xorg. The whole change went smoothly
> but for one thing. OR something has changed in xorg, or the installer messed
> with my setup. But since the change my numpad refuses to do anything else
> than numbers. The numlock switch nicely turns on/off the light.
> Shift-control-numlock idem. But the only thing getting out is numbers.
>
> I've been changing the XkbOptions and XkbTypes to add keypad(microsoft) to no
> avail and all in all I'm getting so frustrated that I'm considering going
> back to xfree.
>
> So, anybody with a hint. Where does xorg expect these things to be changed (as
> the XF86Config doesn't seem to be the place) Anything else I can check?
> Anything at all?
>
> Gerhard
>

No real hint, but mine works. Here's my keyboard section from
xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

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Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>

Re: ARGH! XOrg refuses anything but numbers from the keypad.. [ In reply to ]

javastead at fastmail

Oct 20, 2004, 7:24 PM

Post #3 of 3 (211 views)

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Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A few days ago I've changed from xfree to xorg. The whole change went
> smoothly but for one thing. OR something has changed in xorg, or the
> installer messed with my setup. But since the change my numpad refuses to
> do anything else than numbers. The numlock switch nicely turns on/off the
> light. Shift-control-numlock idem. But the only thing getting out is
> numbers.
>
> I've been changing the XkbOptions and XkbTypes to add keypad(microsoft)
> to no avail and all in all I'm getting so frustrated that I'm considering
> going back to xfree.
>
> So, anybody with a hint. Where does xorg expect these things to be changed
> (as the XF86Config doesn't seem to be the place) Anything else I can
> check? Anything at all?
>
> Gerhard
>
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What I had to change was under Section "InputDevice"
the module is now "kbd" not "keyboard"
so change
Driver "keyboard "
to
Driver "kbd"
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Jim

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