Depending upon the configuration of the version of X installed on your
system, you may find the default X keynames for the keypad keys don't
permit Emacs to interpret some or all the keypad keys as something other
than arrow keys, numeric keys, Home, PgUP, etc. Both Sun and HP have been
particularly guilty of making bizarre keysym assignments to the keypad
Depending upon the configuration of the version of X installed on your
system, you may find the default X keynames for the keypad keys don't
permit Emacs to interpret some or all the keypad keys as something other
than arrow keys, numeric keys, Home, PgUP, etc. Both Sun and HP have been
particularly guilty of making bizarre keysym assignments to the keypad