Re: Keyboard 2

What does "xmodmap -pm" show?

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Leonardo Lopes Pereira wrote:

> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Leonardo Lopes Pereira wrote:
> >
> >> I wan't to know, why the key "NUM LOCK" doesn't work? The light of it
> >> stay off but the function stay active all the time.
> >
> > Hi Leonardo.  My keyboard acted differently also.  I don't know why your
> > NUM LOCK key isn't working specifically, but I recommend comparing the
> > outputs of "xmodmap -pk" under XFree86 and fdo's Xserver.  Also, try
> > running "xev" in an xterm and pressing NUM LOCK to see what keycode it
> > generates.
> >
> > I hope that helps.
> >
> >  - Joel
> >
>
> I will show to you what apears with both commands that you say:
>
>  " xev "
>
> KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
>     root 0x36, subw 0x0, time 177645011, (218,269), root:(231,323),
>     state 0x0, keycode 77 (keysym 0xff7f, Num_Lock), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""
>
>  " xmodmap -pk "
>
> There are 4 KeySyms per KeyCode; KeyCodes range from 8 to 135.
>
>     KeyCode     Keysym (Keysym) ...
>     Value       Value   (Name)  ...
>
>      76         0xffc7 (F10)
>      77         0xff7f (Num_Lock)
>      78         0xff14 (Scroll_Lock)
>      79         0xffb7 (KP_7)
>      80         0xffb8 (KP_8)
>      81         0xffb9 (KP_9)
>
> ( I have cutted some parts of xmodmap )
>
> It wall to be all correct, so, what is wrong that "Num Lock" doesn't work ?
>
>