jim

I had this problem and found in my xorg log that I had some kind of xkbcomp
error. The result was that it was falling back to a keyboard that didn't
want to recognize CTRL+ALT+F#.
What I found was that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp (also symlinked
as /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp) was zero bytes.
I think it can happen if the binary file is diffed (like with etc-update or
dispatch-conf).
Anyway I renamed the xkb directory, then re-emerged xorg-x11 then renamed
the .lots_of_strange_characters_xkbcomp file to xkbcomp rather than messing
with the etc-update or dispatch-conf.

If by some chance you have a backup of the old xkbcomp file, that might work
to (that will save you the time to re-emerge xorg-x11)

--
Jim

--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list