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[Edwin Erdmanis <edwin.erdmanis@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Frédéric Grosshans:
Thank you for taking care of the housekeeping :) Will make an effort to stay on topic:

I believe that any work/patches that were done for MacBooks are actually
working fine: Macbook users seem to be happy with the state of the
current kernel as above. The problem seems to only effect users of the
slim USB keyboards(such as myself).

It has been mentioned that the driver(not sure?) should detect whether
the Apple Inc. keyboard is either the Macbook, or USB/External type and
adapt it's behavior accordingly.

For the USB slim keyboard, IMHO, num-lock is not needed at all. There
are no arrows marked on the num-pad and therefore arrow function on the
num-pad is of no use. The num-lock/clear key should definitely *NOT*
change the behavior of the alpha-num keys, as it unfortunately does
currently - this is the specific problem I believe.

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Slim USB Apple Keyboard not working correctly when pressing the "numlock" key
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201887
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Source Package "linux" in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
I have the new Slim USB Apple Keyboard and in Hardy Heron (Beta) when I first boot up the alphabet keys work perfectly, but once I type in the numpad or a number, nothing happens.  After nothing happens I'm not able to use my alpha keys, either..  When I type alphabet keys after trying a number the alphabet keys produce numbers like '4' and '3'..  And many of the keys don't do anything..


I have tried setting the keyboard up as default, and as an Apple keyboard by going to System > Prefs > Keyboard -- but nothing works.

If i then unplug the keyboard to reboot the keys usually work fine until I hit a number key or the keypad again.