No keymap for 'Apple Extended USB Keyboard'

There is also a lot of problem with the french keymap for the keyboard

Just re-assigning the bug to xkeyboard-config. We have been improving the keymaps recently though. Are you both still seing these problems in the latest dapper?

- Henrik

I still have the problem, mostly.

The multimedia keys work fine but I cannot use the number pad (remember, this keyboard has no numlock key, it is always supposed to be a number pad), there is an = key on the numpad that I cannot use, and there is a . on the number pad that X11 thinks is 'delete'

I would have no way of knowing when the mapping is ready so that I should reconfigure, but in my wild dreams Ubuntu would be cool enough to figure it out from the USB device ID.

Here's some xev output:

This is the "help" key on this keyboard:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
    root 0xc1, subw 0x0, time 2594308392, (80,76), root:(1069,103),
    state 0x0, keycode 106 (keysym 0xff63, Insert), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

This really is the "Clear" key as X11 says, but it is where the NumLock key /would/ be if my keyboard had a NumLock key. It does not; the numbers on the number pad, which have the same symbols as a regular keyboard, are permanently stuck in non-number mode:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
    root 0xc1, subw 0x0, time 2594316567, (80,76), root:(1069,103),
    state 0x0, keycode 77 (keysym 0xff0b, Clear), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0b) "
                                       "
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0b) "
                                         "
    XFilterEvent returns: False

This is the = key on the numeric keypad:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
    root 0xc1, subw 0x0, time 2594316983, (80,76), root:(1069,103),
    state 0x0, keycode 157 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

This is not "KP_Delete"; it is period "." :

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
    root 0xc1, subw 0x0, time 2594322542, (80,76), root:(1069,103),
    state 0x0, keycode 91 (keysym 0xff9f, KP_Delete), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

If someone would explain where I should edit, I would be more than happy to fix this myself. My current e-mail is in Launchpad.

This problem still exists in the Feisty Beta PPC Live CD. The left Control key doesn't work at all (doesn't even show up as an event in xev).

The numeric keypad defaults to arrow key mode with the Clear button acting as a numlock as the original reporter stated.

The right Alt key also doesn't work. (to get to a text console i had to press right control left alt f1). same situation on the text console so something is eating those keys in the kernel i'd say.

I was surprised to find the keyboard is now working, just as I had determined to fix it myself. An Ubuntu upgrade must have taken care of it. Here is the output of setxkbmap -print :

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes { include "macintosh+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types { include "complete+numpad(mac)" };
        xkb_compat { include "complete" };
        xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+us(dvorak)+inet(apple)" };
        xkb_geometry { include "macintosh(macintosh)" };
};