Bug 78776 - Keyboard interpretation problem
Summary: Keyboard interpretation problem
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: termcap
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Raszyk
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-29 17:24 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: FEDORA CORE 4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-09-01 09:42:22 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-11-29 17:24:33 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Description of problem:
Hi ! On several machines where RedHat 8.0 is recently installed, when I type 
the key "Alt Gr" I obtain the character 0 (zero).


This fault occurs i.e. with these keyboards profiles : fr-latin1 an us.


The same distribution installed on my portable (Packard Bell) has no problem.


RedHat 7.3 installed in the same material had no problem.


Thanks for help !


Regards, Francois



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot
2.login
3.type Alt-Grey touch (with numlock active)
	

Actual Results:  I obtain 0 on screen

Expected Results:  Nothing

Additional info:

Default appears when numlock is active

Table used : fr-latin1 an also us

Comment 1 Olivier Caudron 2003-01-27 10:25:31 UTC
FYI see bug #76897 that reports an identical problem.

Comment 2 Petr Raszyk 2005-09-01 09:41:07 UTC
This is not a bug in termcap (see bug #76897).
The console (a replacement for a real console) does not read termcap/terminfo
database.
Only an application running in the console/terminal/terminal-emulator can (but 
does not need) to read termcap/terminfo. For instance midnight-commander running
in the console reads (via ncurses-library or slang-library) termcap/terminfo
database.

Your issue could not be reproduced in FEDORA CORE 4  (using font 'default8x16').


Petr Raszyk




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