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From: Marek Holly <marko@exitcode.org>
To: Vlad GURDIGA <gurdiga@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: X.org 7.2 keyboard layout switching does not work
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:38:53AM +0300, Vlad GURDIGA wrote:
>  Hello!
> 
>  After upgrading to Xorg 7.2 "by the book" (/usr/ports/UPDATING), I
>  could not switch my keyboard layouts as I did with the previous
>  version. Even more, I could not switch to text-mode console using
>  Ctrl-Alt-F1.
>  After I've regenerated a new xorg.conf using "Xorg -configure", I was
>  able to switch to text-mode console, but after adding the two lines
>  for keyboard layout switch (from my old xorg.conf):
> 
>  Option "XkbLayout"  "us,ro"
>  Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
> 
>  Ctrl-Alt-F1 stopped working and the keyboard layout switching did not
>  work. Google gave me some hints from the Gentoo documentation site
>  regarding the imposibility to switch to text-mode console, but the
>  solutions provided there did not work for me.
> 
>  Are there any substantial changes in the way that keyboard layout
>  switching works in X.org 7.2 vs. 6.9?
> 
>  # uname -a
>  FreeBSD kpax 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sat Jun  2 20:00:40
>  EEST 2007     root@kpax:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Try to install xkeyboard-config-0.8 instead of 0.9 that is currently available
in ports tree.
http://exitcode.org/freebsd/xkeyboard-config-0.8.tar.gz

Works for me as long as the problem with newest version will be resolved.

-- 
Marek Holly 
marko@exitcode.org