I was running as root in ssh. I shut off device and tried again as user from the default terminal window. This time I used -v 10 and got same result as dnatase. I have verified that my device is 4. Adding -print command shows that it is trying to use pc105 and
% xkbcomp -i 4 :0.0 /tmp/foo.text generates the keymap file without any problems.

How do I verify that DISPLAY is bound?

Earlier I compared some of the files between xkb and xkb-chinook and it appeared that the format of some of the files were different?

I am running an North-America Production model what version are you running ? Might there be some difference?

As a side note all the keys on my BT Keyboard work in DOSBox , where the device keyboard won't generate numbers.