You are having a different problem to what I was - my keyboard would not work at all regardless of what locale it was set as (inlcuding US English). Mine was some sort of hardware compatibility issue I think.
Hmm, I thought I posted my solution here but I guess I never got around to it. Anyway, I plugged my mouse in to a PS/2 port with an adaptor, disabled USB keyboard and mouse support in the BIOS, and then both the keybaord and the mouse worked in Kubuntu. -- Keyboard not responding on install (edgy) https://launchpad.net/bugs/70961 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
