I have now two layouts: sk and us, but KDE keyboard tool in toolbar shows me only icon with "err". When I try set the layout manually from console: aben@homebox / $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout sk Error loading new keyboard description aben@homebox / $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us Error loading new keyboard description Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.16-ck1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre7 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache digest distlocks metadata-transfer prelink sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="sk_SK.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--enable-new-dtags,--sort-common,-s" LINGUAS="en sk cz cs ru de" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia /usr/portage/local/layman/break-my-gentoo-main /usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de /usr/portage/local/layman/fluidportage /usr/portage/local/layman/ecatmur /usr/portage/local/layman/ebuild-exchange" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avantgo avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash bzip2 cairo cdparanoa cdr chroot cli crypt cups curl dba dbus directfb divix4linux divx4linux dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif extensions fame fastcgi fax fbcon festival ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas ldap libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors lzo mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmx2 mono motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql mythtv ncurses net network nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oci8 odbc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl png postgres povray pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session sndfile soap speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff timidity transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vorbis wifi x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xrandr xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_sk linguas_cz linguas_cs linguas_ru linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_i810 video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_fbdev video_cards_v4l" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
You need xkbdata installed. Sometimes xkeyboard-config. Try both.
i tried described solution in bug 125470#3 and this solved it.
