Vish, actually, this is not a hardware issue. It simply is that X and
the Linux kernel got around separating LED handling from the keyboard
driver, but numlockx's source code was never upgraded to #include the
new headers for this.

I'll also point out that numlockx no longer has any upstream, plus that
it no longer has a maintainer at the Debian end.

I would recommend that those who are interested in adopting this package
contact me. We could probably move the upstream code's homepage to
Launchpad and implement the necessary #ifdef to #include the missing
headers, then figure out appropriate startup scripts for a variety of
desktop environments, call this our new upstream tarball and upload this
to Debian, then let the changes spread into Ubuntu via the automated
archive synchronizations.

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numlockx does not turn num lock keyboard light on.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218202
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