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[Jens Bremmekamp <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone looking for a workaround not posted here: you can check your
current keysyms with

xmodmap -pke

Then just switch the keysyms for kexcode 94 and 49 like so:

(Workaround for german layout:)

xmodmap -e 'keycode  49 = less greater Cyrillic_softsign
Cyrillic_SOFTSIGN bar brokenbar' -e 'keycode  94 = dead_circumflex
degree parenleftparenright U2032 U2033'

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Apple USB ISO keyboard has incorrectly swapped keys
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214786
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Since upgrading kernel to version 2.6.24-12.22 two keys are now swapped on my Apple USB aluminium keyboard with danish layout. Now the keys "<" and "½" are swapped and no longer matches the actual print on the keycaps.

The error is isolated to the following commit: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commitdiff;h=efb3031b446d441dca5b10619503ac0bba7f9748

This commit introduced a key swapping for all "ISO" type Apple keyboards. In my case this swapping is incorrect, and generally it seems like a very bad idea to perform hard coded locale specific key mapping in kernel space as this is also done several places in user space.

The included patch reverts the behavior to the default that matches the keycap printing.