On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Dan Hatton wrote:
A further curiosity following on from those described below - I recompiled xorg-server with a few extra USE flags set (3dfx, sdl, hal)
- now alt-shift no longer toggles the keyboard handling, and does
operate as meta-shift in emacs. And the keyboard is now consistently treated as a Mac-like layout, with no LEDs lit in xkbvleds. Any thoughts?
Solved: when the hal USE flag is set, the place to set the keyboard layout is
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-xkeyboard.fdi
see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44311.