I have installed 2006.0 using the graphical installer from the live cd. I ended up with a bootable gentoo installation, however my keyboard was working in the console but not in X. in order to use "setxkb" I got an error: e.g. norman@localhost ~ $ setxkbmap -model armada -layout de Error loading new keyboard description solution: sudo cp /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
Just had a user run into this on irc... Is bug 41743 back to haunt us? This person is an etc-update user, though.
Apologies, this user didn't use the graphical installer, the problem occurred during some system updates..odd..
I am using a german keyboard and was hit by a similar problem: I could not change the keyboard-layout and Gnome complained every time I logged in or tried to change the keyboard settings vie gnome-keyboard-properties. The '@' and other things did not work anymore. Not very amusing. I am using modular Xorg 7.0 and Gnome 2.14. Finally I got it working. My quick and dirty solution for Gnome: emerge --unmerge x11-misc/xkeyboard-config x11-misc/xkbdata x11-apps/xkbcomp x11-libs/libxkbfile libxkbui libxklavier # Backup any customized layouts before deleting this directories! rm -rf /etc/X11/xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb # This pulls in the xkb-stuff again emerge --onlydeps xorg-server libxklavier emerge libxklavier Then logout of X (otherwise it likely crashes) and login in again. If you are using Gnome then select your keyboard-layout again and remove the old one. Works for me.
Has this been resolved in 2006.1?
I still haven't gotten a response and there's now been two releases. Since I don't know if this is actually FIXED or not, I'm marking it as NEEDINFO.
