On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:21 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> I got a newer laptop, and rather than installing gentoo, I just
> swapped the hard disks. Now when I boot into the new one,
> it works up to the level I am expecting (still need some drivers), but
> the keyboard act wierd. When I press "m" it types "0",
> and some other keys don't send anything at all.
> This issue starts when I start my xdm (configured to start slim). With
> the text run level (console), there's no issues until I start and stop
> xdm.
> 
> I am not sure if I modified something long time ago in the config, to
> use different keymaps, but this issue didn't exist on the older
> laptop.
> What files could have such a configuration, that I need to look into ?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml

Configuring your keyboard

To setup X to use an international keyboard, you just have to create the
appropriate config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. This example features
a Czech keyboard layout:

# nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard-all"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,cz"
        Option "XkbModel" "logitech_g15"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbOptions"
"grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp:switch,grp_led:scroll,compose:rwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
        Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection