Cláudio Henrique wrote:
> hi, there,
> I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line in
> xorg.conf telling it to use "us_intl" as my kbd layout, but it seems
> to be ignoring it.
> as a consequence, I have to execute "setxkbmap us_intl" every time I
> enter Gnome. I also tried adding it to ~/.xinitrc .

If you're on stable (7.0 or above), us_intl no longer exists.

You probably want this in xorg.conf:
Option "XkbLayout" "latin"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"

Thanks,
Donnie