Re: Bug in Opie (or Qt?)

Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2002 03:18 schrieben Sie:
> I finished my Compaq Microkeyboard driver. It is able to
> produce every single key that a normal 101 key keyboard
> produces.
>
> Problem is, Opiehas a bug in it that I just discovered.
>
> My driver is trying to send SKEY_RIGHTBRACE to Opie. Opie seems
> to be transforming it into an ESC char from what I can tell.
> The reason I say this is that if I launch vi, and press the key
> that my driver is emitting keycode 27 with, vi treats it exactly
> as though I had pressed ESC.
>
> I worked a bit with Gonz, he compiled loadkeys for me, which
> apparently ignores Opie and simply reports the raw keys it sees
> being pressed. From what I can see in loadkeys, my right
> bracket key is emitting keycode 27, which according to
> include/linux/h3600_keyboard.h is SKEY_RIGHTBRACE.
>
> So I think my driver is working correctly, but Opie is doing
> something REALLY weird when it sees a right bracket.
>
> Can someone with a Zaurus or Stowaway try typing a "]" in vi and
> see what it does? Does it treat it as an escape char, or does
> it type a "]"?
>

I have sent a patch for this bug (and many others in the Qt/E keyboard
driver, too) to TT twice .. no response yet.
I think I have to mail it to Mathias Ettrich now - that did the trick in the
past =)

And BTW: This bug is in Qt/E 3.x, too

> Thanks,
>
> -Joe Chott
>

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