Apple Keyboard on Hardy Heron
07/06/08 16:56 Filed in: Linux
It is a long weekend so I decided to upgrade my Gutsy
Gibbon install to Hardy Heron. This was more of a
complete install rather than an upgrade. My pc needed
a clean out.
I have a slim aluminium Apple keyboard on my PC which is great and everything was fine.
Fine until I hit the Num Lock equivalent (the “Clear”) key on the numeric keypad.
This promptly screwed up my keyboard mapping. Nothing I did would return it to normal, including rebooting the machine. Although I didn’t try powering off the computer, just a soft reset.
Anyhow, I managed to fix this problem by plugging in a standard pc usb keyboard and pressing the Num Lock key thereby resetting the OS. I then plugged the Apple keyboard back in and all was well. I confirmed the problem again by pressing the “Clear” key. Problem returned, numeric keyboard not working but neither were the alpha keys.
Fix by repeating the above.
After some googling this seems to be a kernel bug in Ubuntu 8.04. Hope they fix it soon.
I have a slim aluminium Apple keyboard on my PC which is great and everything was fine.
Fine until I hit the Num Lock equivalent (the “Clear”) key on the numeric keypad.
This promptly screwed up my keyboard mapping. Nothing I did would return it to normal, including rebooting the machine. Although I didn’t try powering off the computer, just a soft reset.
Anyhow, I managed to fix this problem by plugging in a standard pc usb keyboard and pressing the Num Lock key thereby resetting the OS. I then plugged the Apple keyboard back in and all was well. I confirmed the problem again by pressing the “Clear” key. Problem returned, numeric keyboard not working but neither were the alpha keys.
Fix by repeating the above.
After some googling this seems to be a kernel bug in Ubuntu 8.04. Hope they fix it soon.
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