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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:06:55 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:33:28 +0200, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could it be a numlock issue? Any idea how to address this?

A good tool for diagnostics always is the xev program. See
if something like

KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x73, subw 0x0, time 1034406899, (-570,493), root:(12,632),
    state 0x10, keycode 77 (keysym 0xff7f, Num_Lock), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
    root 0x73, subw 0x0, time 1034406949, (-570,493), root:(12,632),
    state 0x10, keycode 77 (keysym 0xff7f, Num_Lock), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

comes out when pressing the Num key.

You can always remap the Num Lock functionality onto another
key that doesn't fail after the 4th use - see xmodmap.


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Polytropon
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