Bug 2933
| Summary: | XServer does not start with russian Sun keyboard | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | roganov |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | sparc | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-03 18:42:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Fixed (by applying patch) in XFree86-3.3.3.1-50. Thanks for the report. |
Hello, We are running RedHat Linux on Sparc computer with russian keyboard (type 5C). It looks exactly like english, but with few specific keys. Every time we are installing new system we have the same problem: XServer does not work: it does not know about our keyboard (kbd returns code 54 during probe reply). As a proper solution for this problem we should to create special keyboard definition and put it into 'sunKeyMap.c'. Unfortunatly, we don't know where/how to grasp it. Currently we are using 'XFree86-3.3.3.1-ruskbd.patch' <<<<<<<<<<<< ---XFree86-3.3.3.1/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/sun/sunKeyMap.c.orig Tue May 18 23:26:00 1999 +++ XFree86-3.3.3.1/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/sun/sunKeyMap.c Tue May 18 23:29:51 1999 @@ -5638,7 +5638,7 @@ NULL, /* Hungary5 */ /* 51 */ NULL, /* Poland5 */ /* 52 */ NULL, /* Czech5 */ /* 53 */ - NULL, /* Russia5 */ /* 54 */ + US5Keymap, /* Russia5 *//* 54 */ NULL, /* 55 */ NULL, /* 56 */ NULL, /* 57 */ @@ -5750,7 +5750,7 @@ NULL, /* Hungary5 */ /* 51 */ NULL, /* Poland5 */ /* 52 */ NULL, /* Czech5 */ /* 53 */ - NULL, /* Russia5 */ /* 54 */ + US5Modmap, /* Russia5 *//* 54 */ NULL, /* 55 */ NULL, /* 56 */ NULL, /* 57 */ >>>>>>>>>>>>> which just says that keyboard is US5-comapible. (It is interesting, how people from Hungary/Poland/Czech are avoiding this problem...:-) This patch is not a proper solution, but it is all we have for this moment. The only reason for this message is to put attention to this problem. May be following obvious way is more acceptible: change keyboard identification code to make it little less critical (at least do not abort XServer): Warning: unknown keyboard type %d, guessing US5 layout... in hope what most of minor Sun keyboard modifications are more or less US-compatible. Best wishes, Vladimir.