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keyboard with dead keys don't work with kvm/qemu

Bug #236137 reported by Philippe Clérié
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: qemu

OS: Kubuntu Hardy
System: Thinkpad T60
Guest: Windows XP
xkbvariant: alt-intl

Dead keys are totally lost in the guest. For example, _apostrophe_ followed by _e_ normally outputs _é_ on the host. On the Windows guest, the _apostrophe_ key prints nothing, no matter what follows. My understanding of keyboard capture is that the dead key in the host should not affect the key code received by the guest.

Philippe

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Philippe Clérié (pclerie) wrote :

For what it's worth I have the same issue with VirtualBox. No idea if they are related.

Problem also occurs on Ubuntu Hardy.

Philippe

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Changed in qemu:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Philippe Clérié (pclerie) wrote :

Debian has a package in experimental [qemu (0.9.1+svn20080905-1)] that is supposed to fix this bug. I'm trying to build it on hardy to confirm. pbuilder fails to build the package. Below is the relevant part of the output from pbuilder:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy: Depends: etherboot which is a virtual package.
                                 Depends: gcc-3.4 which is a virtual package.
                                 Depends: libvdeplug2-dev which is a virtual package.

The packages are of course included in hardy.

I'm no expert in package building. I'd welcome some suggestions on how to proceed.

Regards
Philippe

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Philippe Clérié (pclerie) wrote :

Never mind. I found that I needed to add an entry for universe.

Philippe

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Philippe Clérié (pclerie) wrote :

Does not work for me. So I guess the bug they solved isn't the same I reported.

Philippe

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Philippe Clérié (pclerie) wrote :

After further review the update does work. The fix is _not_ included in qemu in intreprid. But kvm for intrepid does have it.

Philippe

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This was fixed upstream in version 0.9.1+svn20080822-1 and Jaunty is already shipping 0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1 so marking this as "fix released".

Changed in qemu:
status: New → Fix Released
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Philippe Clérié (pclerie) wrote : Re: [Bug 236137] Re: keyboard with dead keys don't work with kvm/qemu

I compiled from source a while back so I'm clear now on both Hardy
and Intrepid. However, Hardy being LTS should really receive an
update.

We should rather ask that the version in Jaunty be backported.

Cheers!
--

Philippe

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<Anonymous>

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:48:21 Martin Mai wrote:
> This was fixed upstream in version 0.9.1+svn20080822-1 and Jaunty
> is already shipping 0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1 so marking this as
> "fix released".
>
> ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Fix Released

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Uh, sorry Philippe, I forgot to mention that. Thanks for reminding me :)

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages

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