Bug 15784

Summary:	Numlock does not work on many ThinkPad models
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464041
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Description Mohammed Adnène Trojette 2008-04-30 17:55:45 UTC

Here is a Debian bug report (that I can reproduce):

I have a ThinkPad T42.  This and many other models of ThinkPad have
the NumLk key on Shift+ScrLk.  (Why they didn't do that the other way
around I don't know.)  On a Linux console, pressing Shift+ScrLk
toggles numlock.  However, in X, pressing Shift+NumLk does not toggle
numlock; instead, it starts a mode in which the numeric keypad keys
control the mouse.  Note that this occurs even in a bare X session
with only xterm running.

In order to make numlock work, I run this:
xmodmap -e "keycode 77 = Num_Lock"
Doing so makes numlock work as expected.

According to
<http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work#NumLock>,
this issue applies to numerous ThinkPad models, including at least
"the ThinkPad 600, T20, T21, T22, T30, X20, X21, X31, X40, T42p, T43,
R51, R52".

Thanks for considering.

Comment 1 Mohammed Adnène Trojette 2008-04-30 18:36:23 UTC

Woops, I've already forwarded this one...
I'll ask the reporter ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14061 ***

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