Number pad not working in Lucid

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running 10.04.04 LTS on a Gateway laptop, and have been for a
> couple of years.  Suddenly, the number pad no longer works.  Num lock
> goes on and off, but no keypress produces anything in a document or
> the command line, although the "+" seems to produce some escape
> sequence (a menu appears).
>
> I used it yesterday just fine.  It still works when I reboot to
> Windows 7 64-bit.
>
> I don't normally fool with such stuff, so I have no idea how to begin
> looking into this.

Additional fact: the number pad is working in a console login (Alt-F1).

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD