Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Arrow keys not working when connected to qemu/kvm

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:17:05PM -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> I've isolated this to gtk-vnc, inasmuch as it occurs with virt-viewer 
> and gvncviewer (from the gtk-vnc 0.3.7 source tree) but not the 
> vncviewer from RealVNC 4.1.2.
> 
> While most of these are silently ignored, pressing the down-arrow key 
> results in the following guest behavior:
> 
> atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x0 on isa0060/serio0).
> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes 00 <keycode>' to make it known.
> atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x0 on 
> isa0060/serio0).
> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes 00 <keycode>' to make it known.
> 
> Any hints on where to start in diagnosing this one?

Is you host OS using 'evdev' as its keyboard driver for Xorg ? If so this
is a known issue, which I posted a prototype patch for a few weeks back,
but it needs a few more tweaks.

Daniel
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