Microsoft 4000 Keyboard And GDM

Hi
I have installed Arch Linux base system during which I edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf and my keyboard worked fine, I then installed gdm and edited the 10-evdev.conf file and on rebooting the computer my keyboard settings have been badly rearranged and I can not find many keys, for instance pipe | which is extremely annoying. in dmesg There seems to be 4 Microsoft keyboards with input numbers 2,0,3, an 1, in that order. I read in the wiki Keyboard Configuration in Xorg that Gnome overrides Xkb and whilst not having Gnome installed GDM must be doing the same. The evdev file looks the same as the 10-keyboard file. Can I stop GDM overriding the xorg settings?
In the Xorg log file the keyboard seems to be set up fine then I added an old Logitech ps2 mouse dev/input/mouse0, (I got tired of changing my only usb mouse from Arch desktop to Mint netbook all the time) and rebooted and then I get an EE line:
Error loading keymap /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm
I have a wireless connection on the Arch computer but no desktop or browser yet and I do not know how to cut and paste parts of these files so they can been seen on the forum. I am using the Mint netbook to write this
I have tried installing gpm but I can't download it from the mirrors.
Thanks
Rob (First Post)

If you have Microsoft 4000 keyboard KU0462 then this gives you the right configuration:-
setxkbmap -model microsoft4000 -layout gb -variant intl
Now to try and make it permanent....
I think the example in the keyboard wiki is misleading because of the commas, they are part of the name of the options not part of the command. I have not had a computer with Windows on it since 2006 but I like their hardware.

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