From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on sa.int.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Message-ID: <523FE30F.8030409@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:43:27 +0400 From: Alexey Gladkov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130812 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Moffat References: <20130920002712.GA18001@milliways> <20130923003157.GA27169@milliways> In-Reply-To: <20130923003157.GA27169@milliways> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre OpenPGP: id=4CFFD434; url=http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&search=0xA45ABA544CFFD434 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kbd@lists.altlinux.org Subject: Re: [kbd] Test failures in kbd-2.0.0 on ppc X-BeenThere: kbd@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion List-Id: Linux console tools development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:43:38 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: 23.09.2013 04:31, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:27:12AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> ========================================= >> 2 of 8 tests failed >> Please report to gladkov.alexey@gmail.com >> ========================================= > > The situation is a bit more serious than I thought. Mac keyboards > were generally dire and weird, plus I use a KVM switch to share one > keyboard and monitor between my desktop machines, so I've got a > regular x86 British keyboard. This has always worked ok (apart from > the 101st key being not recognized - that's a kernel problem), and I > normally use my own keymap [ uk-utf ] to add a lot of things and to > make the compose settings for accents closer to the Xorg dead keys. > > With kbd-2.0 (whether compiled with or without the separate lib), > loadkeys returns a status of 0 but doesn't change the keymap. Same > with the shipped uk map. I've now dropped back to 1.15.5 here and > my own keymap is working fine. > > For anyone else who wants to test this, and who has a ppc with a > regular US keyboard, "loadkeys uk" ought to load the British map > (double quotes on shifted 2, at-sign on shifted comma, pound > (sterling) on shifted 3 instead of has-sign. And if working, > "loadkeys us" ought to restore it. > > I repeat that this is with everything else up-to-date, maybe it > still works with old toolchains, I don't know. > I've another bug report about the regression in the keymap parser: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36689 -- Rgrds, legion