keyboard detection

[Vivek788]

I am in gutsy..and my keyboard prints these
é,á,ń,í,ó,ú
Ä,Ë,ï,ö,Ü

Strange and irritating as I am unable to type programs quickly while using ¨ or ´...as each have to be pressed twice to print them...my keyboard was detected as us:intl during install...this is first time i have this prob...also this is not there in windows...only in ubuntu.

 

[QwertyManiac]

Check your Locale and set it to US. Does that help?

 

[cynosure]

His keyboard was detected as US only.

 

[QwertyManiac]

Locales break sometimes, I'm just asking him to reconfigure them.

 

[Vivek788]

how to check locale?

 

[QwertyManiac]

Under Administration see Language Support.

 

[praka123]

@vivek:edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and check whether it is as follows.most generic keyboards works with see in section input keyboard :

Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
Option           "XkbLayout"     "us"

the problem may be due to improper kbd detection and us-intl set as layout.

 

[Vivek788]

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
        Option          "XkbVariant"    "intl"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

This is what is in the file...what is the KkbOptions pointing to?

 

[praka123]

edit as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

this solves.as i too had the same problem with auto kbd detecting while installing.reboot for keyboard setting.

 

[Vivek788]

well..that worked but on rebooting they asked if to use X settings or GNOME settings...i set X.
Then on keyboard menu..I changed this easily...just the matter knowing where the prob was....thanks