This happened to me - there appears to be a mandrake bug.
In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit there is section at the end which modifies
/etc/X11/XF86Config to change the keyboard layout depending
on what the environmental variable LANG is set to. On my
system LANG never got set, so mandrake munged my keyboard
layout. My fix was to comment out the section in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
that begins:-
"Linux Mandrake : this little script is hack to fix a(nother?)
strange (bug?) in XFree3.3.3.1"
and then set XkbLayout in /etc/X11/XF86Config as you did.
Perhaps a better option would be to set LANG properly, so
perhaps putting "LANG="spanish";export LANG" at the top
of rc.sysinit would work for you.
hih
nick@nexnix
At 19:17 26/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Try running Linuxconfig from the command prompt. This should give you the
option of changing it. All though I am not sure.
>
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>On Monday, April 26, 1999 6:42 PM, Toshiro Viera Stalker
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>: Hi! I've installed Mandrake 5.3; in the installation I've chosen spanish as
>: the language, but I picked the US keyboard layour. The problem is that now
>: KDE has the spanish keyboard layout and I cannot change it to US.
>: I've inspected the XF86Config file and I've found that "XkbLayout" was set
>: to spanish, if I change it to english, when I reboot the machine
"XkbLayout"
>: is changed back to spanish!!!!! Do you have any idea about what
>: program/script/whatever is changing that file?
>:
>:
>: Best wishes,
>: Toshiro.
>:
>:
>:
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