after update to xorg-server-1.20, Sun keys are not recognized
Kostas Oikonomou
k.oikonomou at att.net
Sat Jun 13 13:59:55 UTC 2020
Hello,
I have been using a Sun type 6 USB keyboard for a long time with my FreeBSD
system.
After the update to xorg-server-1.20, the Sun-specific keys on the left of the
keyboard are no longer recognized.
Here is the output of setxkbmap:
[ko at wiley ~]$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include
"pc+sun_vndr/us+sun_vndr/gr(simple):2+inet(evdev)+group(menu_toggle)" };
xkb_geometry { include "sun(type6unix)" };
};
[ko at wiley ~]$
And here is what libinput debug-events --verbose --show-keycodes reports, first
pair of columns,
and what xev reports, second pair of
columns:Stop KEY_POWER 116 Xf86PowerOff 124
Again KEY_SLEEP 142 XF86Sleep 150
Props
Undo
Front
Copy KEY_WAKEUP 143 XF86Wakeup 151
Open
Paste KEY_SEARCH 217 XF86Search 225
Find KEY_BOOKMARKS 156 XF86Favorites 164
Cut KEY_REFRESH 173 XF86Reload 181
A) I've tried to fix some mappings, e.g. the Copy key, by doing
xmodmap -e "keycode 143 = XF86Copy"
but this doesn't work. Similarly for Paste, etc.
B) You can see that the important keys Open, Front, and Undo produce no keycodes
at all.
C) I had previously posted this question to the X11 forum. It resulted in a long
discussion, but no resolution.
Please see below:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/sun-keyboard-and-xorg-server-1-20-freebsd-12-1-xfce-4-12.75521/
Any help would be appreciated.
Kostas
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