XKB configuration problems

[Kirill Lapshin <kir@lapshin.net>]

Hello,

I configured XKB in XF86Config-4 this way:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "microsoftpro"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us,ru(winkeys)"
        Option          "XkbVariant"    "winkeys"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "grp:menu_switch"
EndSection

But menu key does not switch groups! I tried to do

setxkbmap -option "grp:menu_switch"

and it does activate switching with menu key, but... it only cycles once 
through groups, i.e. I start in 'us' layout, hit menu, now 'ru' layout 
is active, hit menu again, back to 'us', hit menu one more time, and 
surprisingly I am still in 'us'. I can run setxkbmap again, and it will 
allow me to switch to 'ru' one more time, but then it will be stuck in 
'us' as before.

Another interesting moment is if I do "setxkbmap -print" after X starts, 
but before issuing any other stxkbmap commands, I can see that 
grp:menu_switch option is active, even though it does not work.

I am running unstable, kernel 2.6.2, XFree86 4.3.0. My keyboard is usb 
ms natural pro.

Here is a snippet from my XFree86 log:

$ egrep -i "(xkb)|(keyb)" /var/log/XFree86.0.log
(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
(**) XKB: model: "microsoftpro"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru(winkeys)"
(**) XKB: layout: "us,ru(winkeys)"
(**) Option "XkbVariant" "winkeys"
(**) XKB: variant: "winkeys"
(**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:menu_switch"
(**) XKB: options: "grp:menu_switch"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver


Any ideas why is xkb misbehaving?

Kind regards,
Kirill