Bug#394871: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: Dead keys do not work with French keyboard (fr-latin9)

[Jérôme Marant <jerome@debian.org>]

Le lundi 23 octobre 2006 23:35, Davide Viti a écrit :

> I see; you can use the very same iso and boot using "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt" and
> eventually append also "priority=medium"

I just had to hit Return because it makes use of newt by default.

> > BTW, I can help debugging that VT issue if you tell me where
> > I shall look into.
> 
> well, it's not yet clear what is going on; 
> I've noticed the following :
> 
> when loading the keymap using the graphical frontend, you get the
> following warnings:
> 
> INFO: kbd_chooser: setting keymap fr-latin9
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 cedilla
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 acute
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 diaeresis
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 brokenbar
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 threequarters
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 currency
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 onehalf
> WARNING **: : assuming iso-8859-1 onequarter
> 
> and those are printed only if kbd_mode is different from "3"
> (K_UNICODE, from <linux/kd.h>); using some extra logs I noticed that
> kbd_mode is "2" (K_MEDIUMRAW) when running the graphical frontend
> and looking at the directfb sources (inputdrivers/keyboard/keyboard.c)
> 
>      if (ioctl( dfb_fbdev->vt->fd, KDSKBMODE, K_MEDIUMRAW ) < 0) {
>           D_PERROR( "DirectFB/Keyboard: K_MEDIUMRAW failed!\n" );
> 
> ...
> 
>      info->desc.max_keycode = 127;
> 
> I've tried to change that into K_UNICODE and s/127/255/
> 
> the warnings disappear, but I can't get the accented letters I get on VT2
> (for example "["+"e" give me "ê" when I use fr-latin9 on my italian keyboard)

Whenever you change something, you regenerate th udeb then the mini iso
and boot it, right?

-- 
Jérôme Marant