Keypad does not work in X

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On 21.11.2014 15:12, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> I sent this to the XCFE list but a helpful person there pointed out it 
> was probably a driver problem because of the USB keyboard, so I am 
> sending it here . .:
> 
> I don't make much use of the keypad so when it hasn't worked in recent 
> version of Fedora (currently v20 x86_64), I have usually been in a hurry 
> and have just used the numbers on the main keyboard - but now this 
> problem is annoying me!
> 
> The console keypad works fine - but in X, whether I use NumLock on or 
> off - I get nothing - nada, zip - not numbers, not cursor movement, 
> nothing.  The NumLock light comes on but there's nothing at home . .  Is 
> this an XFCE problem or something else? - I spent a lot of time Googling 
> but came up with nothing . .
> 
> Since the XFCE post, I have found these lines from dmsg - in case they 
> help . .
> 
> 
> [    5.929470] input: HID 04d9:1400 as 
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/0003:04D9:1400.0004/input/input5
> [    5.929683] hid-generic 0003:04D9:1400.0004: input,hidraw0: USB HID 
> v1.10 Keyboard [HID 04d9:1400] on usb-0000:00:1a.2-2/input0
> 
> [   13.662662] input: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:4026 as 
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.0003/0003:046D:C52B.0006/input/input7
> [   13.663031] logitech-djdevice 0003:046D:C52B.0006: input,hidraw3: USB 
> HID v1.11 Keyboard [Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:4026] on 
> usb-0000:00:1a.0-2:1
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
> 

Check within the newly created users, xfce4-accessibility-settings, xfce4-mouse-settings and xfce4-keyboard-settings.
$ systemctl isolate multi-user.target
$ startxfce4

BTW to prove this is specific to the particular device, guess what, check with another one. ;)