Numlock was indeed the problem. Thanks so much for the help! Jim "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Pine.SOC.4.61.0701161132020.22647@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jim Duda wrote: > >> I'm having trouble with my laptop keyboard configuration. I'm stumped, hoping someone will recognize this issue. >> >> I have an old Winbook P3 450Mhz laptop. It had a broken keyboard, the a,s,d keys didn't work. I installed FC5 on >> the laptop using a PS2 keyboard on the back. The laptop seemed to work fine, so, I ordered a replacement keyboard >> (dell 5000 style keyboard) and installed the new keyboard. >> >> When FC5 boots, the keyboard appears to work with gdm, I can use all the keys when attempting to login. I can >> successfully login. However, after X starts running, the right side of the keyboard doesn't work properly. All the >> keys appears as numbers. It's almost as if the right side of the keyboard is working like the number pad on a >> standard external keyboard. > > On many laptop keyboards, you'll see numbers and alternative punctuation on the keys on the right. They are > accessible using NumLock. > >> >> Now, if I plug in the external PS2 keyboard, the laptop keyboard starts working just fine. I can even remove the PS2 >> keyboard, and the the laptop keyboard continues to work. However, after some amount of time (hours) the laptop >> keyboard reverts to the bad behavior and I need to install the PS2 keyboard again to restore the laptop keyboard to >> proper operation. >> >> In the FC5 preferences menu, I have the laptop keyboard configured as the default with is a pc-105 keyboard type. >> >> Anyone have any ideas? > > Do you have a NumLock key? Try toggling it. If there are CapsLock and NumLock LEDs, see if the NumLock one is on. > > Check the BIOS and see if NumLock is set on at boot time. If it is, try setting it off. > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jim >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
