Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 01:11:05PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Hello, I recently upgraded my Xen server from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 and
> am no longer able to type a | over vnc to the xen vms.  When I press \
> it works, but when I hold down shift and press \ which should generate a
> |, the vm sees the scan code for some key that the keymap thinks should
> sit between left shift and Z, but does not exist on US keyboards, and
> that scan code produces a > when combined with shift.  I'm betting it
> was this commit that broke it:
> 
> commit ab8f9d49d62c82a12409475547e4420a46da56ed
> Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 17 16:41:15 2018 +0000
> 
>     hw: convert ps2 device to keycodemapdb
> 
>     Replace the qcode_to_keycode_set1, qcode_to_keycode_set2,
>     and qcode_to_keycode_set3 tables with automatically
>     generated tables.
> 
> Any ideas?

Did you actually 'git bisect' to that commit, or is that just a guess ?

If not, could you 'git bisect' to confirm the actual commit, as there
have been lots of changes in this area.


Regards,
Daniel
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