arrow keys and nav keys do not work

Discovery: Scroll lock and numlock must be OFF for arrow keys and PGUP PGDN Del Home and End keys to work.

when in open office document - with caps lock and num lock off

selecting a line of text with CTRL+SHIFT+ arrow key causes system to hang.

Are you still having this problem? Do you have the correct keyboard layout set? Please follow these instructions to find out what code does each key produce.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

I have this problem in intrepid. Here is some information from xev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode /s/^.*keycode \([0-9]*\).* (.*, \(.*\)).*$/\1 \2/p':

arrow right: 114 NoSymbol
arrow left: 113 ISO_Level3_Shift
arrow up: no response (opens program to take screenshot)
arrow down: 116 Super_R

home: 110 pause
PgUp: 112 KP_Divide
End: 115 Super_L
PgDn: 117 Menu
Insert: 118 NoSymbol
Delete: 119 NoSymbol

AltGr (Alt right): 108 KP_Enter
Ctrl right: 105 Next

This is an IBM ThinkPad R52 (1847W5R). The keyboard is set to Switzerland, which worked fine in Hardy and previous releases.

you should probably specify an affected package to get some maintainer's/dev's attention.

The problem was an old .Xmodmap that I used in Hardy in my /home folder. I deleted it, now everything works as expected. I wrote this .Xmodmap to use my CapsLock as a third modifier in addition to Alt and Ctrl.
Looks like there have been many changes.

clsoing, then

Please reopen this bug, as Dominik was not the only person affected by it.
I have no .Xmodmap, xev returns the proper events, but arrow keys don't work, PgUp returns a "/" and / results in a <Home>. Media keys don't work either. This situation to a programmer is a royal pain in the keyster. Argh!!!

Kubuntu 8.04.1, amd64.

I am experiencing similar problem with arrow and navigation keys. Here are my inputs from ev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode /s/^.*keycode \([0-9]*\).* (.*, \(.*\)).*$/\1 \2/p':

113 Left
111 Up
116 Down
114 Right
118 Insert
112 Prior
117 Next
115 End
110 Home
119 Delete
80 KP_Up
88 KP_Down
83 KP_Left
85 KP_Right

but I can not use any of these inside xserver. They work fine i the console root login.

Updateto above post: This on an Intrepid Beta rls with Kensington wireless kbd for MAC. I am using keyboard layout manager with: (from setxkbmap -print):

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types { include "complete" };
        xkb_compat { include "complete" };
        xkb_symbols { include "pc+us(mac)+inet(evdev)" };
        xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

Intrepid beta on thinkpadT43 with KDE4

Upgraded from fresh hardy install.

The left arrow no longer works in X, but it works in KDM

~/.Xmodmap has this:
keycode 113 = Mode_switch

I don't know how it got there :)
put a # in front of it and all is good.... i can make typing mistakes again and correct them without complicated manoeuvres....

Intrepid beta with a USB keyboard. Upgraded from Hardy. Arrows, page up, pagedown don't work. I have no xmodmap. Keys work fine in text console. Screenshot dialog on up arrow is really, really annoying.

Apparently this was a known issue in Intrepid alpha5 (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha5#Known%20Issues) - the work around described there (set keyboard "Ev-managed") is currently working for me.

Thanks Nat.

Everyone else - Unfortunately the title of this bug describes a generic symptom. We've found that these keys can break in a variety of interestingly different and unrelated (often hardware-specific) ways. So if you are having problems with arrow keys please file a NEW bug.

@Vikki, please feel free to reopen if you still have this problem with Intrepid. Everyone else, please file a NEW bug and do not reopen this one.