Em 21-07-2012 15:14, Ken Moffat escreveu: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:36:52PM -0700, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> >> Now this LFS/BLFS machine, running LXDE, hosts my VM's. >> >> Everything would be perfect, but there is an annoying problem: In my >> br-abnt2 keyboard, the key for / and ? is not working in any VM, only in >> the host. I recall there is a way to identify the key code and ad this >> functionality to it, but can't remember how to do it anymore. >> >> Any ideas? (I am copying these question marks from the host). Perhaps I >> will ask in the support list. > > Yes, that's generally the best place :)
I am replying to support. > Meanwhile, a couple of > suggestions. I can't tell where the keyboard works, and where it > doesn't - there are 4 possible places: > > host, console > host, xorg Here, it is ok. > vm, console > vm, xorg Both with the same problem: key with / and ? (later with Shift) does nothing. > > For the console, use showkey. For xorg, use xev. In xorg, I would > be inclined to add keys to ~/.Xmodmap but that probably just shows > my age ;) Have no tried showkey in console. For xorg, xev does not respond to pressing the key, or respond to Shift but then nothing for the key. It is as if there is no key 211. It is the same behaviour if the VM is running LFS, Windows, Arch, any VM. I have even created a new VM to test with a live CD, still no such key. So, the problem is with the vmware-player installation in the host LFS7.1-svn. The same machines have good keyboard when run with host Lubuntu, same version of vmware-player, only kernel is older: from the 3.2 series. Tomorrow, I will test first same kernel version, but with the huge size, compiled with Lubuntu config, and then, an older 3.2 series kernel, with my config. > Lots of people have reported this problem over the years, e.g. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470153 (for xorg), but I > would expect that it had been fixed a long time ago : if xorg is the > problem, are your systems in the VMs old, and perhaps they used to > work with the keyboard driver ? You may get different codes for > some of the keys from xev compared to the old keyboard driver - > you could try adding 'Option "XkbModel" "evdev"' (pasted from my > 11-keyboard.conf, perhaps the details differ in the old xorg.conf file I read the bug, and used some of the instructions there, to see if the keyboard configuration was correct, and the answer is positive. The configuration in the host LFS7.1-NG and VMWLFS7.1 are identical. Contrary to the bug, the numeric pad keys . and , work well, the solutions from the bug are incorporated in Xorg. Thanks again fr your reply, Ken. Anyone, any idea would be greatly appreciated. I think I will post in some vmware list too, if I can't resolve. My old HP notebook, when was not yet broken, had vmware-player installed and working perfectly, hosted by LFS-6.7. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
