<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <<a href="mailto:jtwdyp@ttlc.net">jtwdyp@ttlc.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> It would appear that on Feb 22, Radomir Dopieralski did say: <div class="im"> > Maybe check the XKB* variables in /etc/default/console-setup, for me they are: > > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="pl" > XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="" > > (I use a polish keyboard, obviously.) </div>Thanks for the clue. This is what I'm seeing in /etc/default/console-setup XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch" I'm thinking maybe the "lv3:ralt_switch" thingy??? But then again, I don't exactly have a 105 key keyboard on this gateway laptop, more like 96 physical keys (99 if you count the power and touchpad buttons...) But with other distros the default us keyboard the installer set up, worked just fine. So I'm thinking maybe the XKBOPTIONS are the culprit here... Any idea what "lv3:ralt_switch" is for??? Is this something that can simply be edited by hand, (then probably reboot for full effect) or does one have to use a special command and/or gui tool??? As XKBOPTIONS="" seems like a reasonable place to start... In fact... I just scroogled lv3:ralt_switch And there are several items saying XKBOPTIONS shouldn't be set to it... bug report references etc... including : [Bug 76901] Re: right Alt key not recognized by default (<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg250515.html" target="_blank">www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg250515.html</a>) So I'm gonna try XKBOPTIONS=""... I'll let you know later if this was in fact the problem... </blockquote></div> Good call, Radomir. It appears as though a bug related to this was present in Feisty, but may have reappeared in Karmic. Please see these bugs for relevant info and workarounds: - <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/76901">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/76901</a> - (comment #9 of the above bug) <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/76901/comments/9">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/76901/comments/9</a> - <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/438520">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/438520</a> Jim