Cant Configure Keyboard

Since making my biggest mistake of the year by trying to get Compiz working - a complete waste of time since despite trying every driver ever written by nvidia I still get terrible screen flickering - I have been left with an incorrect keyboard layout and I can find no way to reconfigure it.
I thiink for some reason I now have a US keyboard instead of a UK version as special characters such as " and @ seem to have swapped keys - a little annoying when typing email addresses....
If I try to configure the keyboard using Yast sax2 fails to open and I get dropped to a shell login. I then have to init 3 and init 5 and startx to get back to the gui...
I have also tried running sax2 from command prompt but still get the same result - it just wont launch properly and drops me to a shell - also if I do not quickly login and init3 init5 and startx to get the gui back, the screen simply blacks out after maybe 15 seconds and I can do nothing except hit reset.... :-(
Can anyone advise me of how to either get sax2 working again, or how I can manually edit my config files to give me a proper UK keyboard.
Thanks,
Chris

try running sax2 from failsafe,should sort it out

Andy

Failsfafe huh?? sounds a bit Windowsy to me ;-)
Well I gave it a try Andy, but with no great success.....
Here's what happens:-
boot failsafe takes me to runlevel3 with a few skipped services - samba ACPI etc
login as root
run sax2 and get following output
Sax: initializing please wait
Sax: your current config will not be read in
Sax: no Xserver is running
Sax: will start own server if needed

then I wait for about 45 seconds with nothing happening, then about 15 seconds of epilepsy inducing flickering
Finally the nice blue sax screen appears showing AutoGraphicSetup suggestion prompt box with 3 options - accept gfx configuration, change or cancel - my hopes were raised but sadly regardless of which of these 3 options I select Sax disappears and I am left back at the command prompt which will now not accept any input...
I seem to remember somewhere along the way when I was wasting time with Compiz,
reading that sax2 has problems recognising the Nvidia Xserver - could this be why I am unable to now use sax2?

have you tried editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop/display manager & changed it to Xorg ? might solve the problem

Andy

well this is very bizarre....
since playing around with running sax from failsafe my keyboard is now back to UK layout!!!

I had a look at doing your last suggestion - my path is slightly different to your suggestion - I dont have the desktop folder just /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager whcih looks like this:-

## Path: Desktop/Display manager
## Description: settings to generate a proper displaymanager config
## Type: string(kdm,xdm,gdm,wdm,console)
## Default: ""
## Config: xdm,kdm,gdm
#
# Here you can set the default Display manager (kdm/xdm/gdm/wdm/console).
# all changes in this file require a restart of the displaymanager
#
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

## Type: yesno
## Default: no
#
# Allow remote access (XDMCP) to your display manager (xdm/kdm/gdm). Please note
# that a modified kdm or xdm configuration, e.g. by KDE control center
# will not be changed. For gdm, values will be updated after change.
# XDMCP service should run only on trusted networks and you have to disable
# firewall for interfaces, where you want to provide this service.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="no"

## Type: yesno
## Default: no
#
# Allow remote access of the user root to your display manager. Note
# that root can never login if DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN is "auto" and
# System/Security/Permissions/PERMISSION_SECURITY is "paranoid"
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="no"

## Type: yesno
## Default: yes
#
# Let the displaymanager start a local Xserver.
# Set to "no" for remote-access only.
# Set to "no" on architectures without any Xserver (e.g. s390/s390x).
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER="yes"

## Type: yesno
## Default: no
#
# TCP port 6000 of Xserver. When set to "no" (default) Xserver is
# started with "-nolisten tcp". Only set this to "yes" if you really
# need to. Remote X service should run only on trusted networks and
# you have to disable firewall for interfaces, where you want to
# provide this service. Use ssh X11 port forwarding whenever possible.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="no"

## Type: string
## Default:
#
# Define the user whom should get logged in without request. If string
# is empty, display standard login dialog.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=""

## Type: yesno
## Default: no
#
# Allow all users to login without password, but ask for the user, if
# DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN is empty.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN="no"

## Type: yesno
## Default: no
#
# Display a combobox for Active Directory domains.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION="no"

## Type: list(root,all,none,auto)
## Default: auto
#
# Determine who will be able to shutdown or reboot the system in kdm
# and gdm. Valid values are: "root" (only root can shutdown), "all"
# (everybody can shutdown), "none" (nobody can shutdown from
# displaymanager), "auto" (follow
# System/Security/Permissions/PERMISSION_SECURITY to decide: "easy
# local" is equal to "all", everything else is equal to "root"). Note
# that remote user can never shutdown in GDM.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="auto"
## Path: Desktop/Display manager
## Description: settings to generate a proper displaymanager config
## Type: string
## Default:
## Config: kdm3
#
# space separated list of users for which icons should be shown in KDM
# if empty, then take system defaults
#
KDM_USERS=""

## Type: string
## Default:
#
# Special greeting words in kdm
#
KDM_GREETSTRING=""

## Type: string
## Default: SUSE
#
# Define the theme to be used by kdm. If empty, the traditional login
# window is used (which lacks some features)
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="SUSE"
## Path: Desktop/Display manager
## Type: string(Xorg,Xgl)
## Default: "Xorg"
#
# Xgl is an experimental Xserver using OpenGL for rendering.
# Right now only the glx backend is supported, which runs on top of a
# standard Xorg server providing OpenGL.
# Set this to 'Xgl' and run SuSEconfig only if you want to run your
# displaymanager (kdm/gdm/xdm) on Xgl on top of Xorg.
# This setting is case sensitive.
# Warning! This is highly experimental.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=Xorg
## Path: Desktop/Display manager
## Type: string
## Default: "-accel glxbuffer -accel xvbuffer"
#
# Xglx is an experimental Xserver using OpenGL for rendering.
# Additional options for startup when using a display manager.
# You can try
# "-accel glx"
# or
# "-accel glxbuffer"
# in order to get accelerated indirect OpenGL rendering for 3D applications.
# You can also try
# "-accel xv"
# to accelerate XVideo color space conversion and/or scaling.
#
# See also /usr/share/doc/packages/xgl/README.SUSE
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glxbuffer -accel xvbuffer"

## Type: string
## Default: "auto"
#
# Mode to configure on output devices by default
# (RANDR 1.2 compatible drivers only).
#
# If set to "auto", DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto is used on laptops, and
# the empty string on workstations.
#
# The output is not explicitly enabled (read: disabled) if set to an empty
# string.
# If the variable contains a fully configured modeline (see default of
# DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto), the mode is defined and set.
# If the variable contains a mode name only, the mode has to be defined
# already.
#
# If a monitor is attached during Xstartup, or when invoking "xrandr --auto"
# during runtime, the output is correctly configured and a mode is
# automatically selected if none has been used so far.
#
# Variables are checked according to their extension for
# VGA DVI_I DVI_D DVI_A Composite S_Video Component LFP Proprietary
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_VGA="auto"

## Type: string
## Default: "1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync"
#
# Mode to use for laptops for DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_* on laptops only,
# when the according variable is set to "auto".
# (RANDR 1.2 compatible drivers only).
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto="1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync"
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_I=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_D=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_A=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Compsite=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_S_Video=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Component=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_LFP=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Proprietary=""

it looks like my displaymanager=kdm but displaymanager_xserver = xorg so I'm not really sure which, if any, if I should be changing here.

however under /etc/sysconfig I found my keyboard config file which is showing that I am using english-Uk pc104 - I 've copied it and put it somewhere safe in case I get the same problem in the future

if you have it working now, just leave things as is, best not to fiddle too much if you do, best to keep a copy of xorg.conf as well

Andy