Spontaneous numlock

[ab1jx]

I was carefully pushing Fn, then a key, then letting up the key, then Fn because I was trying to see the Fn key.  And redirecting the output to a file so I wasn't actually seeing anything.  And I had rebooted and done this before I started X.

Code:

kb mode was UNICODE
[ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]

press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...
0x9c
0x7d 0x19
0x19 0x99 0xfd
0x71
0x71 0xf1
0x72
0x72 0xf2
0x73
0x73 0xf3
0x6e
0x6e 0xee
0x45
0x45 0xc5
0x46
0xc6
0x77
0x77 0xf7
0x45
0x45 0xc5

But I don't see a scancode for Fn.  There should be one hex number that's in all of them and there isn't..  I'm not sure what the pairings of scancodes are, maybe press and release.

Fn isn't stuck on, I use the F9 key all the time in mc.  And shift-Fn-insert to paste.  I let the laptop sit turned off and went back t0 sleep, when I got up it was OK.