Is Keyboard not working properly in Ubuntu 8.10?

/ November 21, 2008 / Ubuntu / Permalink

Recently I have updated my Ubuntu machine at office from 8.04 (Hardy) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Surprisingly my keyboard was not working properly specially the arrow keys, HOME and END keys. Then I searched through google and found a quick solution. That I am sharing here to help others who may face this problem.
Just run the following command in the terminal all keys of your keyboard will work.

$ setxkbmap -model evdev

Thanking everyone and welcomed to share.

NB. This is not a permanant solution. But works for a single login. After restarting it will need to run the command again.

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12 Responses to Is Keyboard not working properly in Ubuntu 8.10?

  1. bleh December 1, 2008 at 9:29 pm #

    i get an error when running that, after a while of splelunking the internet, i found a partial workaround, but this does DISABLE your multimedia keys.

    add this to your xorg file. /etc/X11/xorg.conf

    Section “ServerFlags”
    Option “AutoAddDevices” “off”
    EndSection

  2. xc1024 December 13, 2008 at 2:55 am #

    hi. got the same problem. fortunately works for me. thx.

  3. tim December 20, 2008 at 12:59 am #

    had exactly the same problem, but this fixed it – thanks!

  4. Apostolis December 24, 2008 at 8:49 pm #

    Worked for me also! Thanks for sharing!!

  5. Daniel December 28, 2008 at 9:45 am #

    THX it works perfectly

    what would be a permanent solution for this problem??

  6. Guest March 15, 2009 at 10:17 am #

    Thank you very much. I was searching for a solution since two-three days and visited all the Ubuntu forums and google links, but none gave a solution to this problem. Even the Ubuntu experts are making it complicated with tedious solutions.
    But urs was a simple one and the important part is that it worked :-) Thank you.
    Your solution(http://www.saifur.com/2008/11/21/is-keyboard-not-working-properly-in-ubuntu-810/) should come in the first page of google search so that it helps all.

  7. ziaei March 19, 2009 at 8:14 pm #

    hi
    but now have problem with f5 and also if you want to go to the and of line cant press the key and wait for reaching the end but you have to press it repeatedly

  8. platinumriver May 23, 2009 at 3:20 am #

    Awesome post!! fixed my issue as well!

  9. egon November 12, 2009 at 12:40 am #

    thanks, that worked for me

  10. Aaron September 1, 2010 at 5:37 pm #

    Very very good article !! I love it. I felt very good and stress free after reading this article. I will also forward this article to my friends also.

  11. phil December 5, 2010 at 1:51 pm #

    very good! Worked for me! Thank you very much

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