2.6.0-t11: keyboard problems revisited

2.6.0-t11: keyboard problems revisited

[Jurgen Kramer]

While booting 2.6.0-t11 into textmode I found out there are still some
problems with the keyboard code.

On my laptop with PS/2 keyboard (Japanese layout) I can't use the key
with the Yen on it (which also has the pipe). All other keys seem to
work OK.

On my PC with USB keyboard (Logitech iTouch) I can't use the "\" key
properly so I can't type "ps -ef | grep blabla" which is not very
helpful is you want to try to investigate problems.

So there seems to be some kind of anti-pipe conspiracy here...;-)

Jurgen
 

Re: 2.6.0-t11: keyboard problems revisited

[Loic Bernable]

In his previous email, Jurgen Kramer explained :
> While booting 2.6.0-t11 into textmode I found out there are still some
> problems with the keyboard code.
> 
> On my PC with USB keyboard (Logitech iTouch) I can't use the "\" key
> properly so I can't type "ps -ef | grep blabla" which is not very
> helpful is you want to try to investigate problems.
>
> So there seems to be some kind of anti-pipe conspiracy here...;-)

This problem is not specifically related to the Logitech one. There are
several cases related to this bug (ie for instance
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/11/27/153 )

Your | key should be the same as the "*" key on french keyboards.

I submitted a bug report dealing with the details of this problem, but
still no answer yet.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637


The patch provided by Tonnerre Anklin should work (I wouldn't have
changed the two values, just 84 -> 43) but it may break some other 
keyboards. This is one question asked in the bug report.


And the other is : why did it work with 2.4.x kernels ?


Thank you to Cc me for any answer ...

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