keyboard detection · DIGIT-ARC

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.

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

His keyboard was detected as US only.

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

how to check locale?

Under Administration see Language Support.

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

Code:

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

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

Code:

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?

edit as follows:

Code:

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.

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