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[Tommy Vestermark <tommy.vestermark@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm problems these problems as well. I have a wired USB white
Apple keyboard with danish layout. Allthough to me it seems like to
seperate issues:

1. When upgrading kernel from 2.6.24-11.17 to  2.6.24-12.22 all F-keys
stopped working except 'F5' and 'F6'. Other characters are swapped as
well (e.g. '½' and '§' has been swapped with '<' and '>'). Based on the
discussion above i can now make the F-keys temporarily work again by
pressing and holding the 'fn' key.

2. When pressing the "crossed rectangle" key above '7' on the numeric
keypad (is it the 'clear' og 'num-lock' key??) the letters and numeric
keypad no longer work correctly. Instead some of the letters behave as a
virtual numeric keypad as for a laptop keyboard without a numeric
keypad. A fix is to press the 'F6' key twice to get the keyboard back to
normal mode. Apparently 'F6' behaves as 'num-lock' in this mode.

After spending several hours with this problem before realizing it was
related to the kernel-update, I went to search the bug database. It
seems to me it is likely to be caused by the "fix" introduced in bug
#162083. The keyboard worked fine before, so this is very annoying.

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Slim USB Apple Keyboard not working correctly..
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201887
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
I have the new Slim USB Apple Keyboard and in Hardy Heron (Alpha 6) when I first boot up the alphabet keys work perfectly, but once I type in the numpad or a number, nothing happens.  After nothing happens I'm not able to use my alpha keys, either..  When I type alphabet keys after trying a number the alphabet keys produce numbers like '4' and '3'..  And many of the keys don't do anything..


I have tried setting the keyboard up as default, and as an Apple keyboard by going to System > Prefs > Keyboard -- but nothing works.

If i then unplug the keyboard to reboot the keys usually work fine until I hit a number key or the keypad again.