[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#404503: Wrong characters typed using dead keys

[Pavel Vávra]

Hi,
  Now I can confirm, that Samuel's patch works. Thank you Samuel, your patch is OK and thank you again for your help.

  ... but I do not understand another related issue: Computer boots, it has to load keymap from /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, but just now no accented characters are written using dead key. I make a copy of current keymap:
dumpkeys > afterboot
Now I run:
loadkeys /etc/console/bottime.kmap.gz
... wow, now characters are written fine
and now I
dumpkeys > afterload
diff -s afterboot afterload
... diff reports identical files :-(

Is anything in init scripts resetting results of loadkeys running from /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh?

Pavel


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:40:46 +0200
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> clone 404503 -1
> retitle use unicode compose table ioctl
> tags 404503 + patch upstream
> thanks
>
> Pavel Vávra, le Mon 20 Apr 2009 20:22:38 +0200, a écrit :
> >   I've found that compose table in /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz contains strange symbols 0x255 as result of each compose line, as described in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10143. I try to change my initial console map to my own file, but after rebooting dumpkeys still return 0x255 as composed characters. Does it mean that lenny kernel doesn't contain patch from kernel bug 10143? No, it seems this patch is implemented.
>
> Note that the bugzilla entry you mention is only about the predefined
> compose table, not the one you load after booting.
>
> >   I think that loadkeys has to set map and then dumpkeys has to return same (or similar) map back.
>
> Yes, it should be that way.
>
> > Any idea why some composed characters are rewritten?
>
> The problem is that kbd wasn't patched into using KDSKBDIACRUC.
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12359
>
> Samuel
>
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