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Bug 1842849 - [RHEL-8] Caps lock maps to CtrlL_Lock
Summary: [RHEL-8] Caps lock maps to CtrlL_Lock
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: console-setup
Version: 8.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Vitezslav Crhonek
QA Contact: David Jež
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1586149
Blocks: 1844967
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-06-02 08:10 UTC by Flos Qi Guo
Modified: 2023-10-06 20:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: console-setup-1.177-2.el8
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Doc Text:
Clone Of: 1586149
Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-12-03 08:17:20 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
pm-rhel: mirror+

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Description Flos Qi Guo 2020-06-02 08:10:25 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1586149 +++

Description of problem:
AFAIK it's workaround for some old kernel bug. Is it still needed? Wasn't the original bug already fixed?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kbd-2.0.4-5.fc28.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. loadkeys /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/us.map.gz && dumpkeys | grep 58 | head -1
2.
3.

Actual results:
keycode  58 = CtrlL_Lock      

Expected results:
keycode  58 = Caps_Lock

Additional info:
On the other hand the legacy works:
# loadkeys /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz && dumpkeys | grep 58 | head -1
keycode  58 = Caps_Lock

--- Additional comment from Vitezslav Crhonek on 2018-06-21 17:09:19 HKT ---

keymaps in /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/ are generated from xkb layouts by console-setup during the build of kbd, more specifically by /bin/ckbcomp. The substitution of Caps_Lock/CtrlL_Lock is done there and the reason behind it is
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746#c21
(and you're right, it's closed).

I'll take closer look at it.

--- Additional comment from Vitezslav Crhonek on 2018-06-28 16:45:26 HKT ---

Fine, I'm going to remove the substitution of Caps_Lock/CtrlL_Lock from console-setup.

To summarize it - the kernel is still not fixed. Without CtrlL_Lock on keycode 58 you won't be able to capitalize accented letters by Caps Lock (for example with czech keymap - turning on Caps Lock and hitting key '2' won't produce 'Ě', but 'ě'). On the other hand, this is exactly how legacy keymap (/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwertz/cz.map.gz) works and you can produce 'Ě' with dead key anyway. This change should also fix problems with Caps Lock LED.

I'll rebuild both packages in Rawhide.

--- Additional comment from Vitezslav Crhonek on 2018-07-23 20:51:22 HKT ---

The keymap is fixed in latest kbd build in Rawhide (kbd-2.0.4-7.fc29).
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