thanks very much, it worked! one of the the big things that helped also was i found it throwing up the following error: the xkeyboard keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports can't find file for uk symbols include so i changed it to gb that combined with the multiple config /log out/login/config/logout fix...

There's nothing there that will allow your Pi to boot. It's a while since I tried Raspbmc but I think you need to run the executable on a windows machine in order to write the preliminary image to the sd card and then boot your Pi with the sd card while attached to ethernet to allow the full image ...

Hi, On the weekend i bought a logitech k400 with british layout. its all setup as british but what im getting is i believe a U.S layout. For example " should be @ and vice versa. (plus many other differences) ive tried some of the fixes ive come accross but all of them seem to be for when us layouts...