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To: Matt Heckaman <matt@arpa.mail.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-QUESTIONS <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Keyboard behaviour under FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE & XFree86 4.0.1
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hi Matt.

normally, this behavior is toggled with Alt-Shift-Num_Lock.

-- christian.


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> Hello,
> 
> I've had a problem with my keyboard off and on under X here. It does not
> happen all the time, and I've been unable to determine just what causes it
> to do this, or what triggers it.
> 
> At times, my number pad on the keyboard ceases printing out numbers and
> starts to move my mouse curser (very slowly) with the #5 key acting as a
> highlight button on the mouse.. This is with NUMLOCK turned on. I have
> found that this behaviour also happens with the NUMLOCK key off..
> 
> This is quite frustrating. I've never had this happen under X 3.3.6, and
> since it doesn't happen all the time under 4.0.1, I'm at a loss. I most
> definately need the number pad to speed up number entry.
> 
> My XF86Config entry for the keyboard looks like:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "keyboard"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc104"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> If anyone has seen this behaviour, could you give me a pointer on how to
> fix it? Also, if you require more information; please let me know!
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time.
> 
> Regards,
> Matt Heckaman
> 
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