Subject: Re: Problem with num keypad
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/09/1997 01:07:58
On Nov 8, I wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 (compiled from sources) on a NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA
> system. I'm using pccons.
> I just noticed that the num keypad doesn't work as it should: return, +, -,
> *, / and num_lock works, but '0' to '9' and '.' don't, regardless of wenever
> num_lock is set or not. xkeycaps don't get anything from these keys,
> but get propers events for all others. All keys work in text mode.

Well, after some more investigation I found that this is a bug in the
X server: xev showed that the keycode returned for these keys are wrong and
out of range.
Disabling the xkb extention (start the X server with X -kb) solves the
problem.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.
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