keyboard problem

[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 take back what I just sent. Depress Fn+Prtsc/SysRq and then press 
Shift + Num_Lock. I was able to get the numbers to type without holding 
shift down.

Jim