wonky keyboard issue solved

[Dave Stevens]

This isn't a help request, just a report in case anyone lese sees this.

I use ubuntu on a little netbook I pack around with me. Recently I set  
it up in a place I was visiting for a couple of weeks and used an  
external USB keyboard. The keyboard powered up with num lock turned  
on. After three weeks I turned the system off and unplugged the  
external keyboard and went away. When I next used the netbook keyboard  
it looked like I was having a stroke, the vowels and consonants were  
all mixed up with numbers and punctuation.

It took me about a week of fu---, er, experimentation, to figure out  
that I had to plug the external keyboard back in and then turn off num  
lock then power down. Then on reboot the ubuntu keymap was where it  
ought to be.

Quite unsettling while it lasted.

Dave


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