Comment 120 for bug 201887

@sceintus

You must tap 'clear' to enable the numpad by default. As discussed throughout this thread and elsewhere, the decision was made that 'clear' is in the spot a user might expect the 'Num lock' key to be, and it will be detected and treated as such. So, after booting the computer, or at any time, just tap 'clear' and your keypad will work.

I'm assuming that you are running the latest Intrepid kernel (you did a distribution upgrade and have updated any packages through apt).