[Qemu-devel] Keyboard/monitor problems when running not under X

[Qemu-devel] Keyboard/monitor problems when running not under X

[Marcus Blomenkamp]

Hi all,

i'm having serious problems getting my qemu instance running properly on linux 
framebuffer console. Somehow keystrokes are not delivered or translated 
properly leading to the following effects:
	1. weird key mapping in guest (backspace -> 5)
	2. unable to change to monitor console by pressing ctrl-alt-2
	3. unable to use stdio console when invoked "-monitor stdio"

Problem 1 can be "solved" by explicitly forcing "-k de" in my case, however 
the other problems remain. Funny thing is when launching the monitor for 
stdio, characters are only delivered or echoed on/after switching to the 
guest and back, eg:
	press help <enter>, nothing happens
	press ctrl-alt-1
	press ctrl-alt-2, help text is displayed.

My system is running linux 2.6.14-rc5, sdl 1.2.9, fb console 1280x1024-32@60

Best regards, Marcus

Re: [Qemu-devel] Keyboard/monitor problems when running not under X

[Jim C. Brown]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:08:29PM +0100, Marcus Blomenkamp wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i'm having serious problems getting my qemu instance running properly on linux 
> framebuffer console. Somehow keystrokes are not delivered or translated 

Yep. This is a known issue with the framebuffer. For some it seems to just work,
but for others the keys are not mapped correctly. My guess is that because qemu
uses the raw SDL scancode, its expected an X11 keycode but getting a framebuffer
keycode (or possibly the raw PC keyboard scancode). This probably wouldn't be
to hard for a person familiar with linux framebuffer programming to fix.

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