X.org 7.2 keyboard layout switching does not work

[Norberto Meijome]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:38:53 +0300
"Vlad GURDIGA" <gurdiga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> After upgrading to Xorg 7.2 "by the book" (/usr/ports/UPDATING), I
> could not switch my keyboard layouts as I did with the previous
> version. Even more, I could not switch to text-mode console using
> Ctrl-Alt-F1.
> After I've regenerated a new xorg.conf using "Xorg -configure", I was
> able to switch to text-mode console, but after adding the two lines
> for keyboard layout switch (from my old xorg.conf):
> 
> Option "XkbLayout"  "us,ro"
> Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 stopped working and the keyboard layout switching did not
> work. Google gave me some hints from the Gentoo documentation site
> regarding the imposibility to switch to text-mode console, but the
> solutions provided there did not work for me.
> 
> Are there any substantial changes in the way that keyboard layout
> switching works in X.org 7.2 vs. 6.9?
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD kpax 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sat Jun  2 20:00:40
> EEST 2007     root at kpax:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Sorry for being a me too, as per

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-May/149940.html

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