Bug#514846: UK AT keyboard does not work on IBM compatible computers

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:04:47 +0000, Mark Hobley wrote:

> The xkb-data package renders the keyboard inoperable from with an X 
> windows session. The keyboard behaves fine from the console outside of 
> X.
> 
> When X is running, if a letter is typed into the x terminal window, the 
> letter appears in the terminal, but the scroll lock light comes on. When 
> another letter is typed, the scroll lock light goes out, and either the 
> previous letter typed is deleted, or the key behaves as an enter key, 
> entering the previously typed single letter as a shell command in the x 
> terminal window. If a letter key is pressed again, the cycle repeats, 
> with the
> scroll lock lighting up again, and a single letter appearing, followed 
> by the scroll lock going out, and again a deletion or false enter.
> 
> This problem was observed on an IBM compatible PC, using a traditional 
> 101 key United Kingdom AT keyboard connected to the keyboard input 
> connector on the back of the computer (In this case via an AT to PS/2 
> adapter cable).
> 
> The keyboard works fine from Debian Etch, and works ok from the console 
> in Debian Lenny (apart from an insert key bug, which occasionally 
> requires the insert key to be pressed in order to operate the cursor 
> keys from the shell command line.)
> 
Hi Mark,

could you please send to this bug:
- your full xorg.conf
- full X log
- output of 'xkbcomp -xkb :0 -'
- output of xev when you press some keys (and if the keysyms it reports
  are wrong, tell us what you expected them to be)

Thanks,
Julien