Fedora 17: unable to login. Laptop keypad is locked

[Edward M]

On 2/2/2013 8:36 AM, santosh wrote:
> I am having dual boot Winxp / Fedora 17.   In winxp everything is working fine.
>
> By mistake the "Shift key" was pressed for a long time, It displayed
> to activate "sticky key". I clicked on "Activate" button blindly.
> (As I was not aware of it)
>
> At that time keyboard of my laptop was working fine.
> When I rebooted the machine, Keypad is locked, unable to type
> password, hence unable to login.to the system.
>
> I have tried to boot through old kernels. Its booting properly then it
> displays login prompt.  At that point I am unable to
> type password as keypad of my laptop is locked.
>
> Please suggest what should I do ?
        Sounds like the  X server  "slow keys" was engaged.
        holding the Shift key again for about 10 seconds should enable 
the keyboard.