Is Keyboard not working properly in Ubuntu 8.10?
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.
9 Comments
xc1024 on December 13th, 2008
hi. got the same problem. fortunately works for me. thx.
tim on December 20th, 2008
had exactly the same problem, but this fixed it - thanks!
Apostolis on December 24th, 2008
Worked for me also! Thanks for sharing!!
Daniel on December 28th, 2008
THX it works perfectly
what would be a permanent solution for this problem??
Guest on March 15th, 2009
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-rahman.com/2008/11/is-keyboard-not-working-properly-in-ubuntu-810/) should come in the first page of google search so that it helps all.
ziaei on March 19th, 2009
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
platinumriver on May 23rd, 2009
Awesome post!! fixed my issue as well!
egon on November 12th, 2009
thanks, that worked for me
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Thomas on 
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