keyboard problem

[jbk at mail2.gis.net (jbk)]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I don't have a solution but the first place to look is at 
this link:
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
Also, it is good to supply the model thinkpad you are using 
as they do
differ in hardware from model to model.

Jim Kelly-Rand

Typing 'numlock' in the thinkwiki search field found this 
information.

NumLock

On the ThinkPad T43 and possibly other models, X does not 
recognize the keycode for NumLk = Shift+ScrLk. To fix this, 
add the following to ~/.Xmodmap or /etc/X11/Xmodmap and run 
xmodmap:

keycode 77 = Num_Lock

Hope this helps.

Jim