Comment 5 for bug 199314

I had this happen tonight in the middle of posting a thread on the Ubuntu forum(probably due to a keystroke combination I used). I have(had) a fully updated Hardy Alpha 6 install, System-Preferences-Keyboard had no effect when changing the default back to USA.
Pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 and ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", which also had no effect whatsoever in changing the keyboard layout to us(still typing amharic characters, terminal was useless because of this). I had to completely reinstall Hardy Alpha 6, since nothing I tried would change the keyboard layout from amharic to us.
The scim I'm using is whatever is installed by default with Hardy.