Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:35:05 +0100, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org said: forcemerge 417850 499608 513559 thanks Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): When keymaps used to be in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables, I used to be able to fix this by changing the cf.map file using the letter o as an example, from: keycode 24 = o O section to: keycode 24 = o altgr keycode 24 = section I tried something similar by modifying /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.map.gz by adding: keycode 24 = o above the line altgr keycode 24 = section (and the corresonding lines for p and m). That fixed the annoying caps lock upper case problem, but the altgr characters were printed as white blanks rather the the proper symbol. Actually, even running loadkeys cf without changing the kmap file will fix the problem. See #417850 and #499608. If you dpkg-reconfigure console-data, then you'll get the problem for cf and Caps Lock won't work on o and p. However, if just after this you run loadkays cf, then it will work. Strictly speaking, yes, but then it just moves the problem elsewhere as described previously: the altgr characters appear as empty squares. They work as expected when the caps lock don't. However, I have found a workaround. I don't know why this works, but it does. First, replace /etc/boottime.kmap.gz with an editted copy of /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.kmap.gz. It was editted by replacing all the include statements with the files so included: /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/qwerty-layout.inc.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/linux-with-alt-and-altgr.inc.gz and /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/linux-keys-bare.inc.gz (actually included by linux-with-alt-and-altgr.inc.gz) Second, move /etc/console-tools/remap out of the way. This file is sourced by /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh. On my system is all but empty (3 commented lines, two blank lines) but it seems to mess things up. This allows me to get OPM when caps lock is on and to get the expected altgr characters for those three keys instead of blank squares. Hope this can help someone else. Thanks for looking into this even though it looks like it is not your package that has the problem. wg The very same stands for the br-abnt2 keymap. So, as a conclusion, these 3 bugs are the exact same one. Where it might be is a mystery for mebut let's at least clean this stuff out. These bugs are the same one. -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
forcemerge 417850 499608 513559 thanks Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): When keymaps used to be in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables, I used to be able to fix this by changing the cf.map file using the letter o as an example, from: keycode 24 = o O section to: keycode 24 = o altgr keycode 24 = section I tried something similar by modifying /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.map.gz by adding: keycode 24 = o above the line altgr keycode 24 = section (and the corresonding lines for p and m). That fixed the annoying caps lock upper case problem, but the altgr characters were printed as white blanks rather the the proper symbol. Actually, even running loadkeys cf without changing the kmap file will fix the problem. See #417850 and #499608. If you dpkg-reconfigure console-data, then you'll get the problem for cf and Caps Lock won't work on o and p. However, if just after this you run loadkays cf, then it will work. The very same stands for the br-abnt2 keymap. So, as a conclusion, these 3 bugs are the exact same one. Where it might be is a mystery for mebut let's at least clean this stuff out. These bugs are the same one. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#499608: Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:25:25 +0100, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org said: Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): Did you really mean for me to try the kbd package, thus auto uninstalling the console-tools package? Yes. This made things worse. Initially it didn't do much more than the modifications I did to the cf.kmap.gz file, ie., the altgr characters were printed as white boxes. This was after restarting /etc/init.d/keymap.sh and /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh. For some reason I decided to do it the MS way and rebooted. That is when things got really screwy. - Altgr symbols for o, p and m keys were all preceded by a circumflex A. - Console graphics, eg. when I started aptitude, were all messed up. * Garbage was left on the screen after all the initial setup was finished (things like setting up the view, creating the tag database). * The menu across the top was just a black field until F10 was pressed, then only the first menu heading appeared. * The box characters down the left side of the information window were all black ? in white ovals, and something else down the right side. * When I entered / to search for a package name, the dialog box was drawn with some other character, the alignment was all messed up, and there was lots of garbage in the text entry field. * Etc... Given this, I decided to retry the kbd-compat pkg with a reboot I can't remember it if screwed up box drawing graphics (I've tried somemany things between then and this report) but the altgr chars were printed as three characters. There was a + a fraction, I think either ½ or ¼, and another character. It didn't fix the uppercase-with-capslock-on problem for o, p and m. I started poking around in /etc and found /etc/console/boottime.kbd.gz. It is loaded by /etc/init.d/keymap.sh and has the lines like the following for o, p and m keycode 24 = +o+Osection\ +OControl_oControl_oControl_o\ Meta_o Meta_O Meta_Control_o This is similar to what I described in the initial bug report regarding the map files that used to be found in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/ so I tried modifying it like keycode 24 =o altgr keycode 24 = section then ran loadkeys on the modified version, and it worked like a charm. But, when I tried to get it to happen from boot, I had no luck. I tried soft linking boottime.kmap.gz to the modified file, cp'ing the modified file to boottime.kmap.gz, tried cp'ing /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.kmap.gz to boottime.kmap.gz. Now, I can't even get it to work properly by loading the modified version manually after reboot. This time however, I don't get the white blanks, but no character appears. There is something non-printing there though. For example if it type word then three times altgr+any of o p m, and try to backspace to delete word I have to hit backspace four times before the d will disappear. Should I be reporting this problem against a different package? Which one? dpkg -S boottime.kmap.gz didn't show any results, so I don't know where it comes from. dpkg -S keymap.sh returns console-common. Any more advice? thanks, WG -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#499608: Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:25:25 +0100, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org said: Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): Did you really mean for me to try the kbd package, thus auto uninstalling the console-tools package? Yes. This made things worse. Initially it didn't do much You apparently also have a problem with UTF-8 at the console. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): When capslock is on, the letters o, p and m remain lowercase unless the shift key is pressed. These are the only letter keys that do this. They are also the only letter keys that have altgr values assigned to them (the other altgr values are assigned to non-letter keys) When keymaps used to be in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables, I used to be able to fix this by changing the cf.map file using the letter o as an example, from: keycode 24 = o O section to: keycode 24 = o altgr keycode 24 = section I tried something similar by modifying /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.map.gz by adding: keycode 24 = o above the line altgr keycode 24 = section (and the corresonding lines for p and m). That fixed the annoying caps lock upper case problem, but the altgr characters were printed as white blanks rather the the proper symbol. This problem does not exist under Xorg, but I am usually on the console, so if there were a fix available, it would be appreciated greatly. That problem seems to be another incarnation of #499608. Could you try installing kbd? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:57:17 +0100, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org said: Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): When capslock is on, the letters o, p and m remain lowercase unless the shift key is pressed. These are the only letter keys that do this. They are also the only letter keys that have altgr values assigned to them (the other altgr values are assigned to non-letter keys) When keymaps used to be in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables, I used to be able to fix this by changing the cf.map file using the letter o as an example, from: keycode 24 = o O section to: keycode 24 = o altgr keycode 24 = section I tried something similar by modifying /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.map.gz by adding: keycode 24 = o above the line altgr keycode 24 = section (and the corresonding lines for p and m). That fixed the annoying caps lock upper case problem, but the altgr characters were printed as white blanks rather the the proper symbol. This problem does not exist under Xorg, but I am usually on the console, so if there were a fix available, it would be appreciated greatly. That problem seems to be another incarnation of #499608. Could you try installing kbd? That wants to uninstall console-tools. Poking around in aptitude I see two versions listed under the kbd tab--- 1.12.17 and kbd-compat 1:0.2.3dbs-65 so I installed kbd-compat, and restarted /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh and /etc/init.d/keymap.sh. That has the same effect as when I modified cf.map.gz as described in the bug report: it fixes the OPM characters in caps-lock mode, but the altgr symbols now appear as solid white blocks. Did you really mean for me to try the kbd package, thus auto uninstalling the console-tools package? Thanks. -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#499608: Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org): Did you really mean for me to try the kbd package, thus auto uninstalling the console-tools package? Yes. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#513559: console-data: Canadian French keyboard and capslock
Package: console-data Version: 2:1.01-7 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages console-data depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0]1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy Versions of packages console-data recommends: ii console-common 0.7.69Basic infrastructure for text cons ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65 Linux console and font utilities -- debconf information: console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/german/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/variant: console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/variant: console-data/keymap/template/layout: console-data/keymap/qwerty/layout: console-data/keymap/azerty/layout: console-data/keymap/azerty/french/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/thai/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/portugese/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/family: qwerty console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/br-latin1/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/french/keymap: console-data/keymap/dvorak/layout: console-keymaps-amiga/keymap: console-keymaps-at/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/romanian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/norwegian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/slovak/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/french/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/hungarian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/variant: console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovene/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/ukrainian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/icelandic/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovak/variant: console-keymaps-usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/standard/keymap: console-keymaps-acorn/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/czech/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/latin_american/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/spanish/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/right_single-handed/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/apple_usb/keymap: console-data/keymap/powerpcadb: console-data/keymap/qwerty/serbian/variant: console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/croat/variant: console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/english/keymap: console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/variant: console-keymaps-sun/keymap: console-data/keymap/template/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/romanian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/greek/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/variant: console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/polish/variant: console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/left_single-handed/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/turkish/variant: console-data/keymap/ignored: console-data/keymap/qwerty/icelandic/variant: console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/wang/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/danish/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/standard/keymap: console-keymaps-dec/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/bulgarian/cp_1251_coding/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/variant: console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/fggiod/layout: console-data/keymap/qwerty/norwegian/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovak/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/standard/keymap: console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/variant: console-data/keymap/qwerty/czech/variant:
