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Message #57413
[Bug 214786] Re: Apple USB ISO keyboard has incorrectly swapped keys
Newby at stage! Can you kindly tell me exactly what i have to do to fix
this problem? Thank you
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214786
Title:
Apple USB ISO keyboard has incorrectly swapped keys
Status in Mactel Support:
Confirmed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
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.
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