Debian Bug report logs - #660154
qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:58:30 +0200

Subject: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken
Package: qemu-keymaps
Version: 1.0+dfsg-3
Severity: normal

With "-k fi -vnc :1" the keyboard layout works pretty well, except the 
key between left shift and "z" key, which generates <> characters 
doesn't work. Instead of "<" it shows "z" and instead of ">" (shift-<) 
it shows "X".

It works correctly if I comment out these lines:

less 0x2c shift altgr
greater 0x2d shift altgr

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-06540-g4c4d285 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Message #10 received at 660154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>

Cc: 660154@bugs.debian.org, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#660154: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:55:07 +0400

On 17.02.2012 01:58, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Subject: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken
> Package: qemu-keymaps
> Version: 1.0+dfsg-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> With "-k fi -vnc :1" the keyboard layout works pretty well, except the key between left shift and "z" key, which generates <> characters doesn't work. Instead of "<" it shows "z" and instead of ">" (shift-<) it shows "X".
> 
> It works correctly if I comment out these lines:
> 
> less 0x2c shift altgr
> greater 0x2d shift altgr

Confirmed, and the fix is verified by independent person with
finnish keyboard -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794653
Thank you Atro for the help!

The attached patch does just this: removes the two mentioned lines.

index 2a4e0f0..4be7586 100644
--- a/pc-bios/keymaps/fi
+++ b/pc-bios/keymaps/fi
@@ -99,9 +99,7 @@ asterisk 0x2b shift
 acute 0x2b altgr
 multiply 0x2b shift altgr
 guillemotleft 0x2c altgr
-less 0x2c shift altgr
 guillemotright 0x2d altgr
-greater 0x2d shift altgr
 copyright 0x2e altgr
 leftdoublequotemark 0x2f altgr
 grave 0x2f shift altgr


Thanks!

/mjt

Message #15 received at 660154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>

To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

Cc: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, 660154@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug#660154: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:32:10 +0200

Hi,

On 2012-03-02 12:55, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 17.02.2012 01:58, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Subject: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken
>> Package: qemu-keymaps
>> Version: 1.0+dfsg-3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> With "-k fi -vnc :1" the keyboard layout works pretty well, except the key between left shift and "z" key, which generates<>  characters doesn't work. Instead of "<" it shows "z" and instead of">" (shift-<) it shows "X".
>>
>> It works correctly if I comment out these lines:
>>
>> less 0x2c shift altgr
>> greater 0x2d shift altgr
>
> Confirmed, and the fix is verified by independent person with
> finnish keyboard -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794653
> Thank you Atro for the help!

while the fix above would seem to resolve this specific issue in most 
cases it is probably best to leave the keymap undefined thus avoiding 
using the QEMU internal keymap definitions at all:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638523
http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/python-virtinst/rev/2bde513dcd9e
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/

Cheers,

-- 
Marko Myllynen

Message #20 received at 660154-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: 660154-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#660154: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken

Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:04:03 +0400

Version: 1.3.0+dfsg-1~exp1

This issue has finally been fixed upstream in qemu-1.3.
Closing this bugreport now.

Thank you!

/mjt

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