I found this googling around and I have the same issue on my gentoo, xorg was updated to 7.4 and normally my .xinitrc calls "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" but this works no longer. Calling this after start by hand in a xterm works then. So upstream is to blame most probably :) -- GPG KeyID EF62FCEF Fingerprint: 13C9 B16B 9844 EC15 CC2E A080 1E69 3FDA EF62 FCEF