Keyboard problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 April 2008 10:32, Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2008 10:24:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Rawhide insists that I use a US keyboard.  I'm forever hunting for the
> > whereabouts of non-alphanumeric keys and it's driving me mad.
> >
> > System-config-keyboard knows that I want a UK keyboard.  However, it
> > reports
> >
> > Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 226, in
> > _okClicked
> >     return self.apply(None, False)
> >   File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 117, in
> > apply keyboardBackend.modifyXconfig(fullname, layout, model, variant,
> > options) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_backend.py",
> > line 34, in modifyXconfig
> >     keyboard = xf86config.getCoreKeyboard(xconfig)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 177, in
> > getCoreKeyboard
> >     raise XF86SectionMissing("No CoreKeyboard InputDevice found in the
> > layout")
> > xf86config.XF86SectionMissing
> >
> > I tried putting in a keyboard section, but Xorg.conf seems to be
> > dynamically produced these days, so re-starting X just puts me back with
> > the default US keyboard.  Is there nothing that can be done about this?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Adding the following to xorg.conf works for me!!!
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection
>
I did exactly that, but when I re-started X I was still getting wrong 
characters.  However, konsole is now giving me correct characters, so I'm 
keeping my fingers crossed.  Strange, though, that it didn't correct 
immediately.

Anne