Bug#441068: qemu: Keyboard problems in DOS : Caps Lock not working, Extended key events doubled. in VNC:, Alt Gr not working, ntilde not working

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

Package: qemu
Version: 0.9.0+20070816-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

In DOS:
-Caps lock events are doubled (so, no efect for caps lock)
-Extended keyboard events are doubled: double up, double down

In vnc mode:
-Alt Gr is not well captured
-ntilde does not work

A patch is attached to solve this problems. It also integrate a new
system to add extra keys without modifying the code (again)

Regards.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages qemu depends on:
ii bochsbios 2.3+20070705-2 BIOS for the Bochs emulator
ii libasound2 1.0.14a-2 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.6.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20070825-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-9 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii openbios-sparc 1.0~alpha2+20070816-1 SPARC Open Firmware
ii openhackware 0.4.1-2 OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC
ii proll 18-2 JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible re
ii vgabios 0.6a-2 VGA BIOS software for the Bochs an
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages qemu recommends:
ii debootstrap 1.0.3 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii sharutils 1:4.6.3-1 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
pn vde2 <none> (no description available)

-- no debconf information

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:38:53PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Package: qemu
> Version: 0.9.0+20070816-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
> In DOS:
> -Caps lock events are doubled (so, no efect for caps lock)

Do you mean that caps lock events *ought to* be doubled (and aren't), or that
they are doubled and shouldn't be?

I found this oddity when writing an AT keyboard driver for GRUB, but I thought
this was the normal behaviour (since the PC architecture is broken in so many
other ways ;-)).

Can you confirm it isn't?

--
Robert Millan

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