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Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> QEMU assumes that the xserver uses the xfree86 model. See files in 
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/, especially 'xfree86' and 'evdev'. The 
> files translate from scancodes that the drivers generate into xserver 
> keycodes. The xfree86 file has '<UP> = 98', meaning that if the xkb 
> driver generates 98 it means the user pressed the UP key. When QEMU 
> uses `98 - 97` as the index into the x_keycode_to_pc_keycode table, 
> which yields the correct Up scancode. But the 'evdev' keycode file in 
> the xkb directory has '<UP> = 111', meaning that the evdev driver 
> generates keycode 111 for the UP key.
>
> Again, you _can not_ assume that the X keycode (XKeyEvent.keycode or 
> SDL_KeyboardEvent.scancode) has any particular meaning. If you run on 
> pure X11, you have to translate it into a keysym (XKeycodeToKeysym()) 
> and use that instead. If you run on SDL, you have to use keysym.sym.

Having to use keysym.sym means that -k is *always* required.  So it 
looks like we need to detect when the keycodes translation is not 
xfree86 and insist that a -k option is passed.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Am I the only one who uses the evdev driver and runs QEMU? I can't 
> believe that.
>
> tom
>
>