From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 18:16:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D84D16A400 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:16:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from don@donhayford.com) Received: from pop-7.dnv.wideopenwest.com (pop-7.dnv.wideopenwest.com [64.233.207.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D527043D45 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:16:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from don@donhayford.com) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (d60-65-141-141.col.wideopenwest.com [65.60.141.141]) by pop-7.dnv.wideopenwest.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k37IG6al021257; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:16:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4436AC4C.5000908@donhayford.com> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:15:40 -0400 From: Donald T Hayford User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060331) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey References: <4435D2B2.30707@donhayford.com> <200604062136.40133.vayu@sklinks.com> <44367296.1030503@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <44367296.1030503@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Vayu , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keypad no longer works under X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:16:23 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Vayu wrote: > >> On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:47, Donald T Hayford wrote: >> >> >>> My numeric keypad no longer works under X >> >> Since when? >> >> > > And, I have to ask, since you didn't mention it ... you've > replaced the keyboard to rule out hardware issues? > >>> except as a way to move the mouse cursor (i.e., no 1-9, etc). The >>> LED changes states when pushed. I've searched through the X.org >>> site but haven't found anything of use. Does anybody know how to >>> fix this? My xorg.conf looks like this: >>> >>> /Section "ServerLayout" >>> Identifier "X.org Configured" >>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" >>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" >>> EndSection >>> >>> >>> >>> Section "InputDevice" >>> Identifier "Keyboard0" >>> Driver "kbd" >>> EndSection >>> >>> >>> / >>> >>> I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, with X version 6.9.0. I use KDE >>> as the X desktop. >>> >>> Thanks for your help, >>> Don Hayford >>> > > I sure don't see anything there that gives a clue. Have you tried > and duplicated the problem with a different WM? > > Kevin Kinsey > I built and installed gnome2-lite and the keypad works correctly. It also works correctly under Fedora Core 4 (dual-boot machine. Sorry I didn't mention that earlier). So, I suppose I should apologize to X.org and change the title to "Keypad no longer works under KDE 3.5". I presumed the problem was with X and not KDE since I had such trouble with my mouse when I upgraded X to R6 and then saw that X had recently changed the keyboard driver. I don't know exactly when it stopped working, but I'm guessing when I upgraded from KDE 3.4 to 3.5 in early February, 2006. I googled "kde keypad problem" and found a reference that suggested hiding (renaming) the .kde subdirectory and the ,kderc file, both in the user's home directory. When I restarted X, I had to go through the kde setup again, but the keypad works now. You guys are geniuses. Thanks for your time, Don Hayford