keyboard layout isn't active after connecting usb-keyboard

[Alex Sido]

I've got 9.04 on my laptop. The following bug has been discovered:
Non-default keyboard layout cannot be turned on when usb-keyboard is connected after the system start. The layout should be removed and then added again to be possible to turn on again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=98e23aa2-7509-44cd-bf43-3eebb9cc70ec
MachineType: Intel Corporation Crestline & ICH8M Chipset
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.45
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=bfa79ecc-ee3d-474f-95ac-a322fb250e5a ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. I have changed this report to associate a better package so was associated to xserver-xorg-input-keyboard

Regards

[iponeverything (cookema)]

Also posted this to: Bug #290644 -- not sure if 290644 is a duplicate of this bug.

I am seeing this same bug. Plugging in a USB keyboard causes my USA -> RUS to change to USA -> ??.

Going into keyboard preferences and deleting Russian and re-adding it while the USB keyboard will allow it to work until the the next time the external keyboard is re-attached. My keyboard settings are not affected by suspend/resume.

Linux mac 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 24 22:19:33 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 8.10

[Alex Sido (sidal)]

BTW, I don't have the problem for some time after some package update (unfortunately I don't know what package that was).

[iponeverything (cookema)]

I am behind on updates. Bandwidth is problematic in Tajikistan. Will update after my system is up to date.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Could you be more specific; what do you have to do to get it working?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.