2ey6ard Layout Messed after installation [Solved]

[gzepplin]

Dear All,

After installing v5.5 the keyboard layout is set on Numlock. However when I press Shift+Numlock the kaeyboard stops working at all; as per this link:

http://www.pan-tech.com/trouble-with-ke ... ard-err6r/

I have installed v5.5 twice and the same thing happend on both installs. I have installed v5.0 and v4.5 before on this same laptop and it not have this problem. However when I installed v4.0, my first attempt at Sabayon it did the same. At the time I simply installed a different linux.

I am very happy with Sabayon and would like to keep it, but this is not helping. I cannot do an upgrade because it is necessary to type the password... one option suggestion by some here on a previous thread.

One last thing, at the time of loggin in, the keyboard is set correctly, but once in the desktop it is wrong.

Basically: Help! Thank you.

[gzepplin]

OK. I keep searching and perhaps adding to this thread.

Will this "remedy" fixe it? I cannot understand it...

Making NumLock work again

Having configured the above graphics modes, I still could not switch between resolutions with [Ctrl][Alt][Kp+]/[Kp-] (at least not within KDE) since I could not use the numlock key. This is because on my thinkpad, NumLock is [Shift][ScrollLock] and the standard XKB shortcut for mouse emulation is [Shift][NumLock] (AFAIK KDE enables the standard XKB accessibility features). So what happens is that NumLock is kind of toggled, but always together with the mouse emulation (xev shows Pointer_EnableKeys as the performed event, the NumLock LED stays off, and the "keypad" keys [j],[k],[l],... are moving the mouse), and I cannot use the [Kp+]/[Kp-].

With xmodmap -pke | grep Pointer I found out that the following command helps:

xmodmap -e "keycode 77 = Num_Lock"

(It simply takes away the second meaning for keycode 77 + Shift.)

From:
http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg. ... e/thinkpad

[gzepplin]

Ok, it looks stupid that I created a thread, added all the posts and then resolved it myself... Sorry.

This resolved the problem:

"September 20th, 2007, 09:15 PM
Just had a similar problem and want to post the solution, as described above. I upgraded to feisty, everything worked fine. Then I plugged in a USB keyboard into my IBM Lenovo Thinkpad R40 2722. After I unplugged it, the laptop keyboard had numlock turned on and there was no way to turn it off. The laptop usually turns off numlock by pressing Shift NumLk but that didn't work (it didn't have anything to do with the laptop itself anyways because when I logged in the keyboard still worked -- only when I was inside gnome did the trouble begin and persist).

Solution:
open the terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)
type "gconf-editor" <ENTER>
in the Configuration Editor go to Edit > Find
enter "numlock" in the search field and turn on "Search also in key names"
Turn off "remember_numlock_state".
Turn off numlock "numlock_on".

Worked for me."

From:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-425322.html

[gzepplin]

I was about to add [Solved] when someone else did... thank you.