Bug#533863: xserver-xorg: keyboard layout switching not working properly after hal / evdev upgrade

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 14:34:11 -0500, Celejar wrote:

> It is still an issue; I'm attaching the keymap.xkb.  BTW, running the
> command throws:
> 
> ~$ xkbcomp -xkb $DISPLAY keymap.xkb
> Warning:          Could not load keyboard geometry for :0.0
>                   BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>                   Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry
> 
> I have no idea what this means - I have no idea what resources are
> meant here; I have plenty of free memory and diskspace.
> 
It's a server bug.  But we don't care about the geometry here, so it's
ok.

With your keymap it seems I can reproduce your bug: switching from il to
us(dvorak) seems fine, but switching from us(dvorak) to il needs 2
alt-shift presses.  Not sure what's up.  As a last data point, does this
also happen if you just run 'startx -- /usr/bin/xterm'?  If so please
file a bug at bugs.freedesktop.org against the xorg product, component
Input/XKB.  Attach your X log and the file from xkbcomp.

Thanks,
Julien