Monday, 15 November 2010

Linux keyboard madness

This happens to me every so often so it I put it here I'll know where it is...

Something changes on the box and I can't type ', ", ` etc. I type ' twice and get
´ and other accents on characters.

Just seems to be /etc/X11/xorg.conf having

Option "XkbVariant" "intl"

Under the keyboard input device. Remove that and it works as normal...



Gentoo grub-probe not working

 I have a bunch of history commands I run when I d a new kernel etc and one stopped working. grub-mkconfig would fail with grub-probe for /....