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[Fwd: No upper case A or S]

[Ted Swart]

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Hope I got the email address correct this time.

. . Ted . .

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From: Ted Swart <Ted.Swart@shaw.ca>
To: linux-msdos@vger-kernel.org
Subject: No upper case A or S
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:30:10 -0700
Message-ID: <40FF42D2.1040607@shaw.ca>

Have just recently switche to Red hat Liunx and becuase I have all my 
genealogy files running under DOS I installed DOSEMU.

Everything seems to wotrk fine except that the keyboard will not enter 
upper case A or uppercase S.

For example if you are at the C:\> prompt and want to switch to A:|>  
you can do so by typing a: but trying to type A: simply results in : and 
nothing else.  A check of all the letttrers on the keyboard shows that 
all lower and upper case letters work apart from upper case A and upper 
case S.

Th inability to type these two upper case letters does not only occur 
at  the C:\> prompt.  Once I am actually typing notes using the 
genealogy software it is also not possible to type upper case A or upper 
case S.

There is nothing wrong with te keyboard since I am typing this with the 
same keyboard right now.

A really odd bug.  Any help you can offer much appreciated.

. . Ted Swart ..

Re: No upper case A or S

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

Ted Swart schreef:
> Everything seems to wotrk fine except that the keyboard will not enter 
> upper case A or uppercase S.

I've got the same problem over here and I now remember having this 
problem at another comp too.
The problem doesn't occur when using xdosemu, it only happens with plain 
dosemu.

Julius

Keyboard weirdness

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

On my new computer (on which I compiled dosemu again) the keyboard 
behaves strangely in xdosemu: lots of keys do not work. E.g. qwertyuiop 
becomes qwt.

The problem can be largely fixed by setting $_X_keycode = (off) -- apart
from the letter s which still does not work! The s key also does not 
work in dosemu on the console.

I get the same problem with 2 different keyboards (normal and usb).

In the past (previous computer) it worked fine with the default setting. 
Now the problem happens with dosemu 1.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1 in the same way. I 
don't have any other problems with Linux on this machine.

There seem to be 3 types of keys:

   type 1: keys that work even with $_X_keycode = (auto) (e.g. q,w,t)
   type 2: keys that only work if $_X_keycode = (off) (e.g. e,r)
   type 3: the letter s.

I tried running xdosemu -Dk -O. Each time I press a key lots of
diagnostic messages appear. They are different for the 3 types of keys.
The last message is:

For type 1: HELPER: get_bios_key() returned 0000
For type 2: put_symbol: modifiers=0000 keysym=0065 [for letter e]
For type 3: put_keynum_r(break) called with invalid keynum ff:00

Outside xdosemu, with xev, the three types of keys behave exactly the same.

Regards, Jan

Re: Keyboard weirdness

[Bart Oldeman]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> On my new computer (on which I compiled dosemu again) the keyboard 
> behaves strangely in xdosemu: lots of keys do not work. E.g. qwertyuiop 
> becomes qwt.

Is there any relation with $_layout? i.e. do the problems with s, q and e 
occur for in the same way for both
$_layout = "auto"
and
$_layout = "us"
?

Bart

Re: Keyboard weirdness

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> Is there any relation with $_layout? i.e. do the problems with s, q
> and e occur for in the same way for both $_layout = "auto" and 
> $_layout = "us" ?

Yes! $_layout = "us" solves it. But I never needed this before. The conf
file says that "auto" tries to generate the table from the current Linux 
console settings. Where exactly does it look? Apparently there is 
something wrong with my present console settings.

Regards, Jan

Re: Keyboard weirdness

[Bart Oldeman]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> Yes! $_layout = "us" solves it. But I never needed this before. The conf
> file says that "auto" tries to generate the table from the current Linux 
> console settings. Where exactly does it look? Apparently there is 
> something wrong with my present console settings.

Maybe, but there were two others with keyboard problems as well. Maybe 
it depends on unicode_stop or unicode_start on the console, but that 
doesn't appear to be the case for me (I can't reproduce it).

Please try the following with $_layout="auto":
Change the two #if 0's before pretty_keysym and printf in 
src/plugin/kbd_unicode/keymaps.c to #if 1 and recompile. Then please 
report what's printed to stdout.

Bart

Re: Keyboard weirdness

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> Please try the following with $_layout="auto": Change the two #if 0's
> before pretty_keysym and printf in src/plugin/kbd_unicode/keymaps.c
> to #if 1 and recompile. Then please report what's printed to stdout.

Things like (I sent the whole thing to Bart)

1e: p: 0b61->'a'    s: 0b41->'A'    a: 0b61-> --    c: 0001->0x01
30: p: 0b62->'b'    s: 0b42->'B'    a: 0b62-> --    c: 0002->0x02
2e: p: 0200-> --    s: 0200-> --    a: 0200-> --    c: 0003->0x03
20: p: 0b64->'d'    s: 0b44->'D'    a: 0b64-> --    c: 0004->0x04
12: p: 0200-> --    s: 0200-> --    a: 0200-> --    c: 0005->0x05

The keys that don't work have 'dashes'.

Regards, Jan

Re: Keyboard weirdness

[JLB]

Bah, what kind of a geek are you? Real geeks can just write a trinary
interpreter and use qwt only for everything ;)

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:03:43 +0200
> From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>
> To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Keyboard weirdness
>
> On my new computer (on which I compiled dosemu again) the keyboard
> behaves strangely in xdosemu: lots of keys do not work. E.g. qwertyuiop
> becomes qwt.
>
> The problem can be largely fixed by setting $_X_keycode = (off) -- apart
> from the letter s which still does not work! The s key also does not
> work in dosemu on the console.
>
> I get the same problem with 2 different keyboards (normal and usb).
>
> In the past (previous computer) it worked fine with the default setting.
> Now the problem happens with dosemu 1.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1 in the same way. I
> don't have any other problems with Linux on this machine.
>
> There seem to be 3 types of keys:
>
>    type 1: keys that work even with $_X_keycode = (auto) (e.g. q,w,t)
>    type 2: keys that only work if $_X_keycode = (off) (e.g. e,r)
>    type 3: the letter s.
>
> I tried running xdosemu -Dk -O. Each time I press a key lots of
> diagnostic messages appear. They are different for the 3 types of keys.
> The last message is:
>
> For type 1: HELPER: get_bios_key() returned 0000
> For type 2: put_symbol: modifiers=0000 keysym=0065 [for letter e]
> For type 3: put_keynum_r(break) called with invalid keynum ff:00
>
> Outside xdosemu, with xev, the three types of keys behave exactly the same.
>
> Regards, Jan
>
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Re: No upper case A or S

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

I've created a bug report for this issue: 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=999831&group_id=49784&atid=457447
Julius