Fix regarding the recent XKB changes in freedesktop.org head

[Coleman Kane]

Hello,

So I recently spent random free-time bits on becoming impatient waiting
for the freedesktop.org maintainers to bring the head of
xf86-input-keyboard up-to-date with the head of xorg-server.

This applies only to those select few that, for one reason or another,
are tracking the head of the freedesktop.org git repositories for
xorg-server, libXi, xf86-input-keyboard, and the like.

Numerous xorg-server changes were committed which are intermediate steps
in an XKB overhaul, AFAICT. It seems that some people with limited time
have not been able to keep their trees in sync. This has caused
widespread breakage of the core X.org system since around Jan 21st.

After much searching, I finally found that there is indeed a fix to this
which seems to work for me right here:
  * http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19724

You may come across a "kbd-pass-the-absinthe.diff" patch which is
supposed to fix this mess (from Daniel Stone). When I tried using that
one, all of my key mappings were messed up, and key-repeat stopped
working properly (and also didn't "not work" properly either). The patch
posted to the fd.o bug above works much better for me on
FreeBSD-current.

I wanted to share this knowledge with anyone else who might be stuck in
last month's sources due to this bug.

-- 
Coleman Kane
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