Re: bin/49998: wsconsctl does not modify keyboard encoding correctly

[Vicente Chaves de Melo <vchaves%ymail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/49998; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vicente Chaves de Melo <vchaves%ymail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/49998: wsconsctl does not modify keyboard encoding correctly
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:37:07 -0300

 Hello
 Finally I was able to understand the source of the problem and create a 
 workaround to allow the correct operation of the abnt2 usb keyboard.
 In this particular server there is only a USB keyboard connected, but 
 due to the BIOS setup the kernel identifies two keyboard during the 
 boot, a pckbd0 and other ukbd0 as we can see below:
 
 target# dmesg | grep wskbd
 wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
 
 target# wsmuxctl -f /dev/wsmux1 -L
 wskbd0
 wskbd1
 
 When I run the command wsconsctl -w map+="keycode 20 = q Q slash" the 
 kernel gets confused and changes the maplen of ukbd0 (sc_maplen=232) to 
 be equal to that of pckbd0(sc_maplen=222), which effectively removes 
 from ukbd0 device, keys with keycode greater than 222:
 
 keycode 224 = Cmd1 Control_L
 keycode 225 = Shift_L
 keycode 226 = Cmd2 Alt_L
 keycode 227 = Meta_L
 keycode 228 = Control_R
 keycode 229 = Shift_R
 keycode 230 = Mode_switch Multi_key
 keycode 231 = Meta_R
 
 What makes the keyboard useless.
 
 I created the file /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/ukbd.br.abnt2 to be used to 
 map the usb keyboard ABNT2 that explicitly adds the keys with encoding 
 greater than 222:
 
 target# cat /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/ukbd.br.abnt2
 keycode 30 = 1 exclam onesuperior
 keycode 31 = 2 at twosuperior
 keycode 32 = 3 numbersign threesuperior
 keycode 33 = 4 dollar sterling
 keycode 34 = 5 percent cent
 keycode 35 = 6 dead_diaeresis notsign
 keycode 46 = equal plus section
 keycode 20 = q Q slash
 keycode 26 = w W question
 keycode  8 = e E degree
 keycode 47 = dead_acute dead_grave
 keycode 48 = bracketleft braceleft ordfeminine
 keycode 51 = ccedilla Ccedilla
 keycode 52 = dead_tilde dead_circumflex
 keycode 53 = apostrophe quotedbl
 keycode 49 = bracketright braceright masculine
 keycode 56 = semicolon colon
 keycode 50 = backslash bar
 keycode 99 = KP_Delete KP_Separator
 keycode 135 = slash question degree
 keycode 133 = KP_Decimal
 keycode 224 = Cmd1 Control_L
 keycode 225 = Shift_L
 keycode 226 = Cmd2 Alt_L
 keycode 227 = Meta_L
 keycode 228 = Control_R
 keycode 229 = Shift_R
 keycode 230 = Mode_switch Multi_key
 keycode 231 = Meta_R
 
 I can confirm that with this file I have a fully functional USB 
 Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard.
 
 It would be nice if this file is made available for use by another 
 Brazilian users
 
  From my point of view this PR can be closed
 
 Best regards
 Vicente
 
 
 On 23/06/2015 14:30, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 > Thank you very much for your problem report.
 > It has the internal identification `bin/49998'.
 > The individual assigned to look at your
 > report is: bin-bug-people.
 >
 >> Category:       bin
 >> Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 >> Synopsis:       wsconsctl does not modify keyboard encoding correctly
 >> Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 23 17:30:00 +0000 2015