Re: [Qemu-devel] ESC key problems & keyboard problems

["Paulo R. Dallan" <prdcomp@uol.com.br>]

Hi!

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:16, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> There was a fix in CVS some days ago which made ESC available with
> keymaps. If you get errors on your console when pressing ESC, you should
> try a newer CVS snapshot.
>
> Oliver Gerlich

Thank you Oliver, I'm going try that... On this aspect, just a note, is there 
an specific way to *uninstall* a previous version of qemu (the one I have 
here I compiled from sources), or should I just download/recompile and 
install over the old files? (I know, it may not be advisable to do this with 
many applications, but in some others as the files are the same and just 
replaced, there are not many problems)...

Still regarding the key problem, who would be in charge of the keyboards 
lay-outs? (In relation to the kbd Brazilian abnt2 keyboard issue I mentioned 
in my previous e-mail...) 

> Paulo R. Dallan schrieb:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've been using qemu/kqemu in a linux host - very nice work folks,
> > congratulations.
> >
> > I'm just having a little keyboard problem. Unfortunately, if I don't
> > choose a keyboard layout ("-k pt-br"), the key "/" and "?" is not
> > recognized either in Linux or Windows (its a Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard).
> >
> > However, when I choose a keyboard map ("-k en-us", for example), the ESC
> > key does not work.
> >
> > Is anyone having the same problem?
> >
> > PS: Just a side note, some time ago, there was a similar little bug in
> > kbd, after compiling dri - open source video acceleration drivers - from
> > sources, by which certain keys - especially this "/" and "?" key was not
> > recognized; I noticed the problem after installing a dri video driver
> > from source, and solved it through the quick & dirty solution I described
> > here:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7263141
> >
> > More comments about it here:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7264988
> >
> > and here:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7289423
> >
> > Considering that according to information contained in qemu source files
> > related to the keyboard layouts, same are based on kbd, and as it seems
> > some information may have come from Red Hat 7 or 9.0
> > (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#TOC42), which uses
> > xfree86 (which dri also used at the time), there may be some connection
> > between the problems and the solution to this little annoyance in qemu
> > may be related (not sure how the keymaps are used in qemu though)...
> >
> > Another note is that there was no such problem after dri moved to xorg
> > (and its kbd version). Don't know if this has been solved in later
> > xfree86 editions.
> >
> > Anyway, best regards and congratulations for the excellent work!
> >
> > Paulo

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Regards!

Paulo