In message <20030506051224.8483429446@grok.beer.org>, Herb Peyerl writes:
>"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>  wrote:
> > In the past, I've sometimes used num-lock to activate the built-in 
> > numeric pad, in which case the ';' key is <numpad minus>, but that no 
> > longer seems to work, probably because I can't get numlock to activate.
>
>Same here. I was all over he keyboard trying to get the numlock to
>come on.  It seems like it wants to be "shift-scrollock" but that
>just causes a beep.
>
>I'm coming back across the atlantic tomorrow and I'm loaded up with
>movies, so maybe I'll have another go at it.
>
I've been known to edit my config file and restart X....


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