Lame Question about xkbcomp/xkbsel

[Ryan King <rking@caseta.com>]

I rudely sent this to the package maintainer before I sent this here.  The
instant I hit send (of course), I realized that this list is a more appropriate
location for this question.

I am simply a clueless user trying to figure out how to get Dvorak keymappings
working with XF4 (Woody).

I have tried the following:
Reading xkbsel(5) and (1)
Putting the following in /etc/xkb/xkbsel.conf:
dv = dvorak 
dv = xfree86(dvorak)
dv = dvorak(basic)
dv = /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak
dv = /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak(basic)
dv = /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak
dv = /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak(basic)
...and so on.

After a pointI realized that xkbsel probably selects from compiled keymaps...
so I started playing with xkbcomp.

I ran xkbcomp as:
xkbcomp /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak
xkbcomp /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak /var/lib/xkbsel/compiled/dvorak.xkm
xkbcomp /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak -o /var/lib/xkbsel/compiled/dvorak.xkm

And none of them produced the .xkm as I expected.  Matter of fact, from my best
readings of the output of strace, it wasn't trying to.

Again, I apologize for being such a clueless newbie, but I think this process
is a little difficult, and I would like to do two things: 1) Get it working for
myself, and 2) Maybe help refine the docs a little so the next person after me
doesn't have to email one of the package maintainers.

Thanks in advance,
 - Ryan King