Hello,

I am sure this is not the proper place to ask. My other attempts to get
info in newsgroups and (XFree) mailinglists go unanswered. Apparently
my thingy is not trivial. You patience and input will be enormously
appreciated.

I have a Dutch keyboard layout (running SuSE 7.1). I have learned a
long time ago that if a map configuration is absent, XFree will use the
default Linux kernel keyboard map. In my case this is a Dutch map
(ofcourse). So until now I could perfectly use my Dutch keyboard
--including all special characters, ALT-GR stuff, etc-- without any
xmodmap/xkeycaps configuration, using just the following lines in
XF86Config:

Section "Keyboard"
  Protocol    "Standard"
  LeftAlt     Meta
  RightAlt    ModeShift
EndSection

Recently I have upgraded from 4.0.1 to 4.1.0 and this approach doesn't
work anymore. I have tried numerous things but XFree refuses to use the
Linux kernel keybaord map. Most obvious seems to "translate" the
original keyboard section to the new XF86Config file format. But until
now all my attempts have been unsuccessful. Does this mean I really
have to go to the painful process of defining a specific keyboard map
using xmodmap or xkeycaps? (there are no good Dutch maps)
Does anyone know how the get XFree 4.1.x to honor the default kernel
keymap? Is this a bug in 4.1.0? (Just kidding. I must somehow justify
posting to this list, right?:-)

Thanks a bunch,
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