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VAIO Laptop keyboard not working on ubuntu 10.10

Asked by Melissa B

I have dual partition of Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 but my keyboard stopped working initially under Ubuntu 10.04. I thought upgrading to Maverick Meerkat would solve the problem, but alas it did not. The keypad stops working as well sometimes.
The problem is not with the hardware itself, because it works with grub, Windows 7, with a usb keyboard, and even with the login screen in Ubuntu.
To be specific, only the right half of the keyboard does not work., when I press those keys the mouse pointer moves around (?), but not the correct letters are outputted. I have checked the slow keys setting, and it is not set.

I have looked everywhere for a solution to this problem but have not had success. There is another thread similar to this one regarding dell computers but no solution is provided. I really don't know what to do about this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

It sounds like both numlock is stuck on and mousekeys are activated. There is a mode in gnome where the keypad (the right hand side of a laptop keyboard) can be used to control the mouse

Go to the keyboard preferences (System->Preferences->keyboard then "mouse keys") using the mouse, then uncheck the box "pointer can be controlled with the keypad".

you then need to hit numlock on your vaio keyboard to turn off your numpad -- I'm not sure where it is, (you may need to put a picture of your keyboard on the net) but it is usually a the "FN" key (bottom left) + one of the F1-11 keys. The numlock is sometimes handled at the hardware level, so you have to disable it at the hardware level -- using an external keyboard to toggle it will not work -- but you should ensure that an external keyboard works properly first.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/MouseKeys

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