Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xkeyboard-config

I tested the latest alpha release because of the input-hotplug stuff
(and possible problems) mentioned here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha6

What I found is that the keyboard did not work out of the box but that
I can get it to work properly (on GNOME), but not if I follow the
official instructions. Here's what I did:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Keyboard model:         Evdev-managed keyboard
Origin of the keyboard: Germany
Keyboard layout:                Germany - Eliminate dead keys
AltGr key replacement:  Right Alt         
Compose key:                    No compose key
Encoding:                       UTF-8
# Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
Console font:                   VGA 16

The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is the evdev- managed keyboard
model, do I need to set this here too? The rest should be fine.

In GNOME I set "evdev managed keyboard" and the layout "Germany
eliminate dead keys". Result: some keys not working. Those include ^, ~,
`, '. I first thought the 3rd level modifier was not working but I could
use @ and €, and ^ is first level for example. So I experimented a bit
and found when I set the keyboard to the 105intl one instead of generic-
evdev it works perfectly in GNOME.

On the console however, it does not. I cannot type ^ or ~ or @ or €. The
3rd level modifier seems to be completely dead. Well, sometimes it even
moves the cursor one character to the left before it inserts the 1st
level character of a given key (for ~ I get <left>"+" for example). I
have tried some other settings but have not yet found one that works
correctly on the console.

Please first take a look at my console-setup config above and clarify if
"Evdev-managed keyboard" is the right model.

** Affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Evdev keyboard setting not working correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277034
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