keyboard problem

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "jbk" == jbk  <jbk at mail2.gis.net> writes:

    jbk> Laura Conrad wrote:
    >> On my shiny new Thinkpad laptop, the numlock key doesn't seem to work
    jbk> Correction
    >> 
    jbk> Depress Fn+Alt+Prtsc/SysRq and then press
    jbk> Shift + Num_Lock. I was able to get the numbers to type without holding
    jbk> shift down.

This doesn't seem to do anything for my problem at all.  But I
discovered that if I boot with an external keyboard attached, the
numlocks on both the thinkpad keyboard and the regular keyboard work
just fine.  I reported the problem on ubuntu-users, and someone is
putting it into the bug database for me.  

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