Failure in detecting keyboard

[Alan Coopersmith]

Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Hi Peter
> 
>> Sergey, is there still reason for doing this? I note the commit dates back
>> to 2004.
> Well, at that point in 2004 something did not work without it, so I
> created it. 

It was probably needed for trying to drop in xkb-config to to replace the xkb
data in the XFree86 or Xorg monolithic builds (i.e. pre-7.0).   The change to
run xkbcomp from the bin directory instead of the data was made in Xorg in 2005:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=287336f3c9e5023acbfba6508b05a68ccca9ddf0

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