There is no keyboard entry at Controlcenter->Peripherals. Screen, mouse and joystick entries are available. I don't have a joystick connected to the computer. I do have a plain USB-keyboard and I'm using the split stable ebuilds. I'm not using one of the KDE meta ebuilds. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" LANG="sv_SE@euro" LINGUAS="sv en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt curl eds emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml2 xv zlib linguas_sv linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Probably you have to install kde-base/kxkb.
Thank you, your advice worked.