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From: Ada Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>
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Subject: Re: ARRGH!  NUM-Lock!!!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970919132529.9616T-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at "Sep 19, 97 01:29:52 pm"
To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 09:19:28 +1000 (EST)
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> D'uh.  I can't figure it out.  It seems like somehow I need to turn on the
> numeric keypad on my thinkpad, which is done via a <Shift>-Scroll-lock.
> This turns the middle portion of the keyboard into a keypad, replete with
> the "-" and "+" keys.
Wait...  this works perfectly on my 760 - I can press shift-scroll-lock,
the little numlock symbol comes up, and my screen changes mode under X.

> We don't have this feature in FreeBSD, so I can't figure out how to
> twiddle the video resolution without changing XF86Config.  This would be a
> real handy feature for those folks with an external monitor -- there's
> enough video memory to run at 1024x768x8, which is pretty nice.  
> 
> Anybody figure out a secret combination to get around this?

How does X access the keyboard?  Is it possible to remap one of the lesser-
used keys to become numeric-plus?

Ada

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