PBM: xorg evdev probably messes with KVM (Qemu) keymaps

[VinzC]

Hi.

I've been using Qemu/KVM for a long time already and I've recently switched to xorg-server-1.4.2. The latter ships with evdev for both mouse and keyboard. Coincidentally my keyboard doesn't work as expected with my Linux KVM virtual machines.

I have a belgian French keyboard. For instance, if I want to get a ampersand, I press the "&" key, which also holds "1" (with Shift) and "|" (with AltGr).

When I run kvm without specifying a keymap, for instance, pressing AltGr is like pressing a Ctrl+C . Many keys don't give the expected character. So I ran kvm with argument -k fr-be. It worked a little better. However in KVM pressing the "ampersand" key returns a lowercase "a" . Also pressing the "[" key returns a "^" (which actually should be a dead key) in KVM.

I've looked up for other keymap files and I saw rdesktop had some. So I replaced KVM's fr-be keymap file with rdesktop's. Now almost all keys return the expected characters. Only the left square bracket "[" still returns a circumflex accent ("^") instead. OTOH keys pressed in rdesktop give the expected character.

That problem didn't occur while I had X running with driver kbd. Is it a bug with KVM or evdev or?... Or is it a bug at all? Don't really know where this fits.

Thanks for any hint/suggestion.

P.S.: This is happening with kvm-70-r1, kvm-72 and kvm-73 as well. I have only tested these 3 versions with xorg/evdev. I had previously used kvm-70 with xorg/kbd before.
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