Bug#345436: xlibs: Keyboard not working properly after upgrade to 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1

[Carsten Pfeiffer <carsten.pfeiffer@first.fraunhofer.de>]

Hi,

I also have a problem with the keyboard in X, namely I cannot produce accented 
characters like à with dead keys. It happens with both the keyboard and the 
kbd driver.

I found the cause to be rooted in the following message in X log:

----
expected keysym, got dead_diaresis: line 143 of pc/de
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
----

I could fix both the error message and the problems with dead keys by editing 
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/level3
and changing 

  key <RALT> {
    type[Group1]="ONE_LEVEL",

to 

  key <RALT> {
    type[Group1]="TWO_LEVEL",

I think the problem already appeared in some version of xorg 6.8.2, but I 
don't know the exact time, as I don't use accented characters all that often.

Thanks,
Carsten