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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: desertrat on January 10, 2006, 03:54:05 pm
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C3100 / 1.1.0beta1
For some bizarre reason my period key (ie the key for the characters . ? >) stopped working when in the console. In X it works fine.
Any ideas?
-- cheers
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C3100 / 1.1.0beta1
For some bizarre reason my period key (ie the key for the characters . ? >) stopped working when in the console. In X it works fine.
Any ideas?
-- cheers
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The same problem exists in rc12 on my C3100.
I think it was already posted in bug database [a href=\"http://www.pdaxrom.org/buglist.php?doaction=showbug&bugid=332]http://www.pdaxrom.org/buglist.php?doactio...owbug&bugid=332[/url]
It is quite annoying.
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C3100 / 1.1.0beta1
For some bizarre reason my period key (ie the key for the characters . ? >) stopped working when in the console. In X it works fine.
Any ideas?
-- cheers
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The same problem exists in rc12 on my C3100.
I think it was already posted in bug database [a href=\"http://www.pdaxrom.org/buglist.php?doaction=showbug&bugid=332]http://www.pdaxrom.org/buglist.php?doactio...owbug&bugid=332[/url]
It is quite annoying.
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Hi,
Can you tell us what's in the file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map" ?
Thanks.
It happened to me this morning and i replaced this file by the one i saved just after i reflashed one week before.
And now, my "period" and "right shift" work !
Something changed this file but what ?
plcg
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Can you tell us what's in the file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map" ?
It happened to me this morning and i replaced this file by the one i saved just after i reflashed one week before.
And now, my "period" and "right shift" work !
Something changed this file but what ?
Yep my right shift button has no effect either (in both console and X). OK contents of my /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map keycode 65 = Tab
alt keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
shift keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
control keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
keycode 27 = Shift
keycode 30 = Alt
keycode 88 = Control
keycode 89 = Alt
keycode 90 = nul
keycode 40 = nul
keycode 121 = nul
keycode 122 = nul
keycode 103 = Shift
grepping the ipkg *.list files I see only one package which claims responsibility for that file, vendor-tweaks. I dissected that package and its kernel.map contains:
keycode 65 = Tab
alt keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
shift keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
control keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
keycode 27 = Shift
keycode 89 = Alt
keycode 88 = Control
keycode 112 = Shift
So I replaced my kernel.map with that then did:
/usr/bin/loadkeys /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map
Now my right shift works but the period key is still non-functioning. Then I remembered that I had made a backup of /etc when I upgraded from rc12 to 1.1.0beta1. But it turns out that the kernel.map is just the same as from the vendor-tweaks package.
So basically now I am using the same kernel.map as I had been doing under rc12, but why isn't the keyboard functioning the same? BTW as you apparently have a working kernel.map please post contents
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So basically now I am using the same kernel.map as I had been doing under rc12, but why isn't the keyboard functioning the same? BTW as you apparently have a working kernel.map please post contents
OK scratch that. I did a windoze and rebooted, now the period key works
But I'm still curious to know why the "/usr/bin/loadkeys /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map" didn't restore keyboard and I had to reboot.
-- cheers
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So basically now I am using the same kernel.map as I had been doing under rc12, but why isn't the keyboard functioning the same? BTW as you apparently have a working kernel.map please post contents
OK scratch that. I did a windoze and rebooted, now the period key works
But I'm still curious to know why the "/usr/bin/loadkeys /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map" didn't restore keyboard and I had to reboot.
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Ooops, I forgot to tell you that...
I don't know either why loadkeys doesn't work.
Now, I want to find which software modifies "kernel.map" !
plcg
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keycode 65 = Tab
alt keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
shift keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
control keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
keycode 27 = Shift
keycode 89 = Alt
keycode 88 = Control
keycode 112 = Shift
I replaced my kernel.map with this map, rebooted and keyboard works fine now.
Thank you!
Now we have to figure out what breaks the keyboard map.
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keycode 65 = Tab
alt keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
shift keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
control keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
keycode 27 = Shift
keycode 89 = Alt
keycode 88 = Control
keycode 112 = Shift
I replaced my kernel.map with this map, rebooted and keyboard works fine now.
Thank you!
Now we have to figure out what breaks the keyboard map.
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I've found it !
It's "Input setup" that breaks this map.
I simply changed my configuration of "Right mouse" and kernel.map has been modified.
plcg
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I've found it !
It's "Input setup" that breaks this map.
I simply changed my configuration of "Right mouse" and kernel.map has been modified.
Good work. No doubt you filed an official bug report
I was fiddling about with "Input setup" under Matchbox yesterday, trying to get the silkscreen buttons (to no avail). So that's what broke my keyboard.
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I don't know either why loadkeys doesn't work.
According to "man loadkeys":
The option -s (or --clearstrings ) clears the kernel string table. If this option is not given, loadkeys will only add or replace strings, not remove them. (Thus, the option -s is required to reach a well-defined state.)
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Good work. No doubt you filed an official bug report
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Done
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keycode 65 = Tab
  alt   keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
  shift  keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
  control keycode 65 = Caps_Lock
keycode 27 = Shift
keycode 89 = Alt
keycode 88 = Control
keycode 112 = Shift
I replaced my kernel.map with this map, rebooted and keyboard works fine now.
Thank you!
Now we have to figure out what breaks the keyboard map.
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I've found it !
It's "Input setup" that breaks this map.
I simply changed my configuration of "Right mouse" and kernel.map has been modified.
plcg
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Hmm, I think that is what "broke" mine too, but changing right mouse to something else didn't get my Right Shift back. My period works, though. I did edit my kernel.map file to enable R-Shift to work again, though It is almost like you can tell it to remap R-Mouse to R-Shift, but nothing tells it to change R-Shift back to it's original function when/if you change R-Mouse.
**edit** I just used Input Settings, set R-Mouse to R-Shift, and it closed X, I started X again, opened AbiWord, and R-Shift worked Also, kernel.map now shows keycode 103 to shift on the last line (instead of 112 like above), but R-Shift still works
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My period key just crapped out, X was not running when I noticed it. I was wanting to cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map and I couldn't type the period, though R-Shift still worked. A reboot fixed this. I would make a bug report, but like I said, there is one, and I can't figure out how to duplicate the cursed problem, though I am trying If I can, I'll post a new bug report to pdaXrom with what I manage.
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typing up a bug report, now. I can duplicate the period key ceasing to function, and the fix.
Under X, I go to System Tools, then Input Setup. Change Right Mouse Button to R Shift, then select Okay and exit. Restart X.
But then you decide you want to use R Shift to type Caps, like I did, because it is awkward to use L Shift all the time. Well, you go back, you change it to the Fn it was defaulted at. Exit X and save. Oh noes! The period key doesn't work anymore!
To fix it, I started X again, opened kernel.map in SciTE, changed the last line to read keycode 112=Shift, saved it, exited X, and reboot. Then the period works again
Crap, I forgot to add to the report that I use the SL-C3100 It is Bug Report #357
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I have the same problem without tampering with the keymap. Can someone be
so kind to tell me what to do now? As far as I can see it is a matter of changing
the content of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map and rebooting. What should
be in this file to get a good result?
-- Marcus
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I have the same problem without tampering with the keymap. Can someone be
so kind to tell me what to do now? As far as I can see it is a matter of changing
the content of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map and rebooting. What should
be in this file to get a good result?
-- Marcus
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Maybe I'm missing something, but have you tried what is in the replys of three post above by km2783?
This works for me and stays working untill I go back into the Input Helper.... then I have to go back and edit kernel.map again.
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Does anyone know the correct entry for kernel.map to swap slash and comma on the console?
Or, how do I get the keycode of a key?
And which strings are allowed as key identifiers on the right side?
Knowing that, I can create my own entries.
daniel
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Fire up 'xev' from the terminal, press the key you wish to know the code for, and then check the output xev gives you.
You'll see something like this:
KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
root 0x46, subw 0x1800002, time 1544556304, (23,45), root:(342,386),
state 0x0, keycode 62 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: FalseIt's the bit after 'keysym 0xffex2' (Shift_R) that tells you the valid key code, and this is acceptable to put in your keymap/kernel.map file.
It works the same when pressing two keys (e.g, the 'Function' and '?.>' keys), telling you what each combination results in. (In that case 'Mode_switch', and '>').
I know I tend to over-simplify things, so I apologise in advance
Hope this helps