From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 15:48:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F5D157C5 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.193.197]) by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 10XYQ0-0003cQ-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:46:04 +0100 Received: from bjc23 by bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Postman Pat (and his black and white cat)) id 10XYQ0-00012Y-00; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:46:04 +0100 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:46:03 +0100 (BST) From: "Ben J. Cohen" X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two questions (Num Lock problem under X) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: >>>>> Firstly, when using some applications, particularly vi, in an xterm under >>>>> X the numeric keypad produces garbage like >>>>> y >>>>> x >>>>> w >>>>> v >>>>> u >>>>> this when I try to use it to get numbers. >>>> >> FWIW, ServerNumLock is commented out in my /etc/XF86Config and my >> kbd behaves exactly the same as yours, i.e. the arrow keys work >> with NumLock off and I get a single letter & linefeed when the >> NumLock is off. I'm running 3.1 off the CDs. >> >> Just a thought but, we are both in the UK and so will (probably) >> have our keyboards setup differently to Doug. These are my settings >> for the kbd in /etc/XF86Config: >> >> >> Protocol "Standard" >> XkbRules "xfree86" >> XkbModel "pc102" >> XkbLayout "gb" >> XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps" I have XkbDisable XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)" This is silly, surely... Is it the problem? >> and in /etc/rc.conf I have: >> >> keymap="uk.cp850" # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO). keymap="uk.cp850" # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO) Yes, me too. ------------------- On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: >I have the same problem, in Xterm. I switched to rxvt and the problem >stopped. I have no idea why rxvt works and Xterm doesn't. This is interesting. Using rxvt (as fresh out of the ports collection) it still has the same problem for me. Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message