I can get xkbd to install on OS2008, but it won't output the right keys. The character output when I press any key seems to vary between launches. I also get an error on launch: "Sorry - server Keyboard map doesn't contain either 2 or 4 KeySyms per Keycode - unsupported!"

I also installed xvkbd from the deb which was posted, and while it works better than xkbd, I can't seem to input any lower case characters. Could the two problems be related?

Answer:

It seems like having xmodmap installed threw things off. After I removed it and and rebooted, everything works fine.