I don't know if this will help or just provide more information; hopefully it will do at least one of those...
My laptop doesn't have a numeric keypad either, but it does have a way to use some of the regular keys that way; they actually have little numbers printed on them in blue next to the "regular" white letter. I think I tried it in Windows when I first got this machine, but I just now tried it in Mint (which uses Gnome) and it works there too. I have to hit NumLock, then hold down the Fn key (on the left side of the keyboard next to Ctrl) while pressing one of those particular keys. Example: holding down Fn while pressing the "J" key types a "1," "K" is "2," "I" is "5", and "9" is "9".
But it sounds like mine is different from yours because once I let go of the Fn key I'm back to typing regular letters.
I'm wondering if your laptop is doing something similar but there's something that's "stuck." Is it possible there's a key combination that is engaged? I don't know what your Asus has, but maybe you could play around with that to see if it will release.
I hope that helps.
Meg
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote:
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> Okay, here's a strange one I have yet to find an answer for.
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> When I am in Gnome, my laptop keyboard takes on a virtual ten-key arrangement on a portion of its alphabetic keyboard. The laptop in question is an ultra-portable with no separate ten-key setup on the right). So far, I have not found a control either physical or in software to revert to the standard layout.
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> Have any of you folks run into this situation, and if so, how did you resolve it?
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