I could reproduce this behaviour on a etch machine at the university having a session which only starts xev and no windowmanager. I get no output for <Caps_Lock>+<Alt>+1 there, too.
There are also some Sun PC's (Opterons) with sun keyboards. On that machine it works as expected if I run setxkbmap -layout us -option ctrl:nocaps I don't know if the xserver uses a different mapping for those sun keyboards. Perhaps this gives someone a clue what's wrong. -Peter Baumann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]