Bug 32921

Summary:	Keyboard bug with a laptop and numlockx
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	rty687d
Component:	Input/Keyboard	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	highest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description rty687d 2011-01-08 10:44:25 UTC

Hi,

I encountered a problem with the numlockx package. 
According to the developper of this package, it is presumably an X.Org problem.

I had a keyboard problem on a laptop (with a french keyboard "azerty").
By pressing on several keys, it wasn't the good key that was printed on screen by the system.

After a long time, I understood that the "Fn" key (instead of the "Num" key) was locked.
It was because, unconsciously, I had installed the numlockx package.

In addition, it was a random problem because I didn't encountered this keyboard problem each time I started the laptop.

The developper of this package answered me :

NumLockX asks for the NumLock key status to be toggled, so if some other
status changes, it is presumably X.Org problem and I cannot really do much
about it.

Thank you in advance.

Regards.

Comment 1 rty687d 2011-01-08 10:49:07 UTC

Hi,

I encountered a problem with the numlockx package. 
According to the developper of this package, it is presumably X.Org problem.

I had a keyboard problem on a laptop (with a french keyboard "azerty").
By pressing on several keys, it wasn't the good key that was printed on screen by the system.

After a long time, I understood that the "Fn" key (instead of the "Num" key) was locked.
It was because, unconsciously, I had installed the numlockx package.

In addition, it was a random problem because I didn't encountered this keyboard problem each time I started the laptop.

The developper of this package answered me :

NumLockX asks for the NumLock key status to be toggled, so if some other
status changes, it is presumably X.Org problem and I cannot really do much
about it.

Thank you in advance.

Regards.

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