Bug#594089: keyboard-configuration: caps lock keycode problem

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Tom Vier, le Thu 02 Sep 2010 15:11:49 -0400, a écrit :
> It says UNICODE mode and the codes for caps lock are:
> 
> press: 0x3a 0xe0 0x66
> repeat: 0x3a
> release: 0xba 0xe0 0x

0xe6 I guess?

> I also just discovered the right shift key goes back a page in 
> iceweasel. Here are the right-shift codes:
> 
> showkey -s:
> press: 0x36 0xe0 0x6a
> repeat: 0x36
> release: 0xb6 0xe0 0xea

All this looks like one of the few keyboard glitches that linux-2.6
fixes for some keyboards known to be bogus, while other keyboards do use
these scancodes to report e.g. multimedia keys.  Could you try
showkey -s with the older, working kernel?

Samuel