Re: Swedish keyboard not recognised

Göran Uddeborg wrote:

>Cedega won't recognise our Swedish keyboard.  And when using some
>national keys in various places I get the wrong character.  For
>example typing a-diaeresis gives me an a-ring.  I suspect these
>problems may be related, so I started investigating why the keyboard
>wasn't correctly recognised.
>
>When starting Cedega with some debug messages enabled, I get a message
>saying that no keyboard match is found, and a Latin American layout is
>used.  (I include the precise output at the end.)
>
>To try to understand why, I checked out the code from
>:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot and searched.  In
>windows/x11drv/keyboard.c I found the relevant function
>X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout().  By adding trace class to the keyboard
>and key channels, I noticed it failed to match several keys when
>trying the Swedish keyboard.  In particular, it fails to match those
>keys in main_key_SE for which more than two symbols are defined
>(keycodes 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 35, and 94).
>
>The definitions in the table do look correct.  The additional symbols
>in the table agree with additional symbols defined for those keys.
>Shown for example with "xmodmap -pk".
>
>So I assume there is something wrong in the way keysyms are checked in
>the code.  I don't know these X functions very well, so I'm not sure
>what the problem is.
>
>In the end, Cedega finds 38 matches and 10 mismatches for the Swedish
>layout.
>
>This happens with all Cedega versions I've tried up to and including
>4.2.  I haven't had the time to check 4.2.1 yet.  My distribution is
>Fedora Core.
>
>Is there something I could do to help debug this?
>  
>

Hi Göran,
   if you could provide me the compressed output of +keyboard,+key then 
we should be able to get a better idea where the problems are coming from.

Ciao,
Peter

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>This is from the output from cedega +err ...
>I don't know where to find the "Wine User Guide" mentioned in the message.
>
>fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your keyboard layout was not found!
>Using closest match instead (Latin American keyboard layout) for scancode mapping.
>Please define your layout in windows/x11drv/keyboard.c and submit them
>to us for inclusion into future Wine releases.
>See the Wine User Guide, chapter "Keyboard" for more information.
>trace:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout detected layout is "Latin American keyboard layout"
>
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