Laptop keyboard doesn't work

[Alain Maronani]

Look at the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg...I am using an us 105 keyboard...I have this with set lang=en_US. What do you have ? Are you using a qwerty keyboard ? azerty ? Something else ?

if loadfont $font ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_US What do you have here ?
  insmod gettext
fi

Next you should look at the file /etc/default/keyboard Mine is

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105" -- What do you have here ?
XKBLAYOUT="us" ---- What do you have here ?
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

If the XKBLAYOUT is wrong change it to XKBLAYOUT="es" here and after do (in a terminal) (you need to edit the file in sudo mode).

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to rebuild your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file then reboot

I do not remember if it is necessary to rebuild the initramfs file also...(used by linux to bootstrap itself)