On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:36:17AM -0500, Greg Ward wrote: > On 28 January 2003, I said: > > I've been having a really annoying problem with X: when I hit > > Shift+NumLock, it launches into an infinite beeping loop. > [...] > > I'm running "unstable" with XFree86 4.2.1-4. Anyone seen anything > > similar? > > Hooray! Ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" last night, so I'm now running > XFree86 4.2.1-5 ... and the problem is gone. It now beeps twice in > rapid succession on Shift-NumLock, which is just fine.
You'll probably find that the double beep is signalling that it's put your number pad into keypad-mouse mode. I've found this useful when I'm without a mouse for one reason or another. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
