Re: Keyboard weirdness

JLB
2004-07-24T11:35:37Z

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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