num lock freezes

[hippocampe]

I've had this problem since I ugraded to mandrake 9. My keypad is disabled automatically after a certain period and I cant get it back with the Num lock key.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[bvc]

How are you starting numlock? From mcc>system>services? Try disabling it ther and make a autostart.sh file and put it in

 

~/.kde/Autostart (for kde)

and for gnome, use the...oh heck, I can't remember what it is called...it's in the gnome menu to autostart apps though :wink:

 

You could also try putting it in /etc/profile.d (global).

 

#!/bin/sh

(sleep 15; rm -f ~/.gtkrc-kde)



#=======ENV==========#

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/usr/lib/qt3/lib/

export OPERA_FORCE_JAVA_ENABLED=1



#=======SESSION=======#

enable_X11_numlock &



#=======START NET=======#

(sleep 7; /home/ppp/7853) &



#=======Screen=======#

(sleep 10; xset s off s noblank dpms 0 0 0) &

[hippocampe]

Well, I ran it from MCC->system->services and it did that.

Now I've disabled the numlock service so that I start it manually but I still have this problem. Once I've turned on Num Lock, it would switch off by itself later on (tens of minutes, hours, depends) and I cant get it back on.

[tyme]

did you try using a different keyboard?

 

i'm assuming the light for num lock on your keyboard turns off, and thats how you know it's turned off. it's possible your keyboard has some bad connecters. this could also account for the randomness of it turning off.

[hippocampe]

Hmm, I haven't tried another keyboard but its not just a LED that's not turning on, the numerical keypad also stops working when the light is off.

I doubt that it is due to bad connection or malfunction of the keyboard because I dual boot with windoze (sigh) and it doesn't do that there.

Any ideas?

[bvc]

Well, I ran it from MCC->system->services and it did that.  

Now I've disabled the numlock service so that I start it manually but I still have this problem.

The idea behind my suggestion above (a script started by the DE/wm) was that having numlock started by the DE/wm environment might help it to stay on.