Today I got my hands on the newly release Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I decided to try to install it on my VMWare to check it out. The installation is a breeze. Then I reach the gdm login page and I try to type in my password to login. However no matter what I press on the keyboard the system got no response at all. I got no choice but to use the virtual keyboard (the little man in the circle) to type in my password. Don’t worry if you didn’t see the virtual keyboard when you first enable it, you just need to reboot the vm and it should appear. After you login just launch a terminal and edit the file /etc/default/console-setup then find the settings below:

XKBMODEL=”SKIP”
XKBLAYOUT=”us”
XKBVARIANT=”U.S. English”
XKBOPTIONS=”"

change it to settings below:

XKBMODEL=”pc105″
XKBLAYOUT=”us”
XKBVARIANT=”"
XKBOPTIONS=”"
Then just reboot your vm and your keyboard should be working fine on the gdm and you can disable the virtual keyboard.

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