Comment 42 for bug 218202

Vish, actually, this is not a hardware issue. It simply is that X and the Linux kernel got around separating LED handling from the keyboard driver, but numlockx's source code was never upgraded to #include the new headers for this.

I'll also point out that numlockx no longer has any upstream, plus that it no longer has a maintainer at the Debian end.

I would recommend that those who are interested in adopting this package contact me. We could probably move the upstream code's homepage to Launchpad and implement the necessary #ifdef to #include the missing headers, then figure out appropriate startup scripts for a variety of desktop environments, call this our new upstream tarball and upload this to Debian, then let the changes spread into Ubuntu via the automated archive synchronizations.