Comment 23 for bug 113444

This problem is back with 8.04 and 8.10 but doesn´t have a quick fix in 8.10

I'm using a Lenova Thinkpad R60, and had this problem in 8.04 before my upgrade. setupcon didn't seem to fix the problem, but I could use the system menu of Applications->Other->Keyboard Layout and switch between different manufacturers and in the process fix the problem until the next boot.

The keyboard layout functionality has changed in 8.10, switched to a tab on the System->Preferences->Keyboard menu
While I can change the configuration in the config file, these settings remain in the menu. The fix is to "add" the standard USA keyboard, select it and then redo this step every single time the machine restarts. Is it possible the problem is in some sort of auto-detection at boot, that detects the keyboard on the laptop?