Keyboard Layout, Bug? Bad Config?

Question

Hey, love arch, love the support, love kittens.
after reading through the wiki and setting up arch i ran into a problem.
it seems my keyboard keeps reverting to the us layout.
here is my 10-keymap.fdi, it's placed in hal\policy.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
<append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
<!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
keyboard otherwise). -->
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
i have tried both gb and uk. no luck.
when it didn't work i decided to specify it in my rc.conf.
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/London"
KEYMAP="uk"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
that worked for a while, an hour or two, then changed. i am using kdemod. 4.xx,  my system is fully up to date.
Thanks.

Answer 1

got it working,
setxkbmap gb
curteous of your irc channel. thanks guys.