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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:22 +0100
From: Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ESC key problems & keyboard problems
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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


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!
> 
> Paulo
> 
> 
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