Re: [Qemu-devel] Still some keyboard problems (was: ESC key problems & keyboard problems)

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

Hi everyone, Oliver!

Still some keyboard problems: if I don't load any keyboard layout, I still 
don't get the "/" and "?" keys...

Now, if I load the pt-br layout "-k pt-br", yes, I get both the "/" and "?" 
key and now the "ESC" is "there"; However, the "accent" keys ("'", "`", "^" 
and "~" keys) don't work anymore... :( 
(Please notice the "accent" keys work when I don't load any keyboard 
layout...)

PS: The version I'm using is cvs from March 10, 2005, with kqemu.

Is there anyone directly in charge of the keyboards layouts?

Again, congratulations for the good work and best regards!

Paulo


On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:44, Paulo R. Dallan wrote:
> 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!