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I have just done a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 on a HP Pavilion G6 and having a little bit of difficulty getting Ubuntu to recognise the numpad. So far I have tried running numlockx on with no luck and also looked at changing the keyboard layout but i just can't seem to get it to work. What seems to be happening is the numlock works but the numbers on the numpad and the surrounding characters do not. I even tried checking xev but even that didn't pick anything on the numpad other than the numlock. Please could someone help as i am running out of ideas!

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Have you tried "mousekeys" option?

That, toggles which use the NumPad to control the mouse pointer.

Short way: Shift + NumLock

Using settings:

  • Step 1: Click on System Menu
  • Step 2: Mouse over on Preferences
  • Step 3: Click on Keyboard (This brings up the Keyboard preferences window.)
  • Step 4: Click on the Mouse Keys tab
  • Step 5: Disable the “Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard” checkbox.
  • Step 6: Click close and ensure that your Num lock is on.

Source.

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