French keyboard, Alt Gr not working

[russell.eberhardt]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a notebook style (no number pad) keyboard.

To get some characters, notably ~, #, and @, I need to use the Alt Gr key.  However this key has no effect.

I have selected the french keyboard layout option in KDE Control Centre  and "Laptop/notebook Dell Inspiron 6xxx/8xxx" for keyboard model. This gets most keys, including the function keys for brightness and volume, working but not Alt Gr.

I found this from Textar:

For the keyboard in the console, I did : setxkbmap fr as root, and as user (change fr to your needs).

so I tried "setxkbmap fr" and it worked.  Thought to myself, "must put that in the startup".  Tried again a few days later and it no longer works! Doh!

Any ideas?

Russell.

[russell.eberhardt]

Haven't changed anything since my post but today it's working again!  Perhaps I have in intermittent hardware fault.

Russell