keyboard problem

[Laura Conrad]

On my shiny new Thinkpad laptop, the numlock key doesn't seem to work
under linux.   There isn't a separate numeric keypad, but numlock is
supposed to turn some of the letters into numbers so that you can
enter numbers the way you do with a keypad.  Instead, the letters do
stop entering letters, but they don't seem to start entering numbers.
(also the numlock led doesn't seem to work).

I know there are lots of ways to fiddle with the keyboard layout under
X -- does anyone have recent experience fixing a problem like this,
and how did you do it?

The reason I suddenly want a numeric keypad is that I just got myself
a shiny new MIDI keyboard, and I want to use a music transcription
method where I enter the note value with the MIDI keyboard with my
left hand and the time on the keypad with my right hand.  I was quite
excited when I set up one of the programs that lets a MIDI keyboard
enter note values into an emacs buffer and it "just worked", so it's
frustrating not to be able to enter the numbers.

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Laura (mailto:lconrad at laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
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