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Subject: Re: Keyboard layout problem with xkeyboard-config-1.0
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Answering myself:

Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> After updating to xkeyboard-config-1.0 (from 0.9_3) yesterday and 
> booting for the first time after the update today, the KDE Keyboard Tool 
> tray icon displays "err" with tooltip "Error changing keyboard layout to 
> 'us'" (or 'de(deadgraveacute)' depending on what I try). Indeed, the 
> keyboard layout does not change.

After reading the x11@ archive, I found this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114876

For me, it was not /usr/local/lib/X11/xkb/compiled that was missing, but 
/usr/local/share/X11/xkb/compiled.