Bug#515734: solutions don't work for me

["Michael S. Gilbert" <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

hello,

i just encountered this problem after upgrading xorg in unstable as
well. i use the dvorak keyboard, but now gdm and x have switched to
qwerty by default.  i have tried reverting to libxi6 1.1.4 from
testing, but that did not solve the problem.  i also tried setting up
the following in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" containts="input.keys">
      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">dvorak</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">compose:lwin</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

but it did not make a difference.  in the meantime, i've added
"setxkbmap dvorak" as one of my autostart apps, which is a partial
solution; however, non-optimal.  thanks for any help anyone can provide
on this.

mike