Hello Peter, after upgrading to xserver 1.5.2 using the new evdev + hal I'm observing that I receive an additional layout group. The gnome keyboard indicator is showing this as "??" and using the libxklavier test program I get: [1227322878,150,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_constructor/] Actual backend: XKB [1227322878,200,xklavier_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_load_all_info/] found 3 groups [1227322878,200,xklavier_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_load_all_info/] Group 2 has name [Germany] [1227322878,200,xklavier_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_load_all_info/] Group 1 has name [Japan] [1227322878,200,xklavier_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_load_all_info/] Group 0 has name [-] The German and Japanese Layout-Group is in my setup, but the system added an additional Group 0 with name "-"?? I already read though your blog (<a href="http://who-t.blogspot.com/">http://who-t.blogspot.com/</a>), but could not find anything explaining such a odd behaviour. I added a lot of description and logfiles to a bug report at this link: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/283128">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/283128</a> I'm not using Autologin (that was causing trouble in other case). There are a lot of devices coming up with evdev/hal, but all have "de,jp" assigned (lshal). What could causing such a problem? What can I do to avoid this problem? Thank you very much. Best regards, Thomas