RISC OS Open
A fast and easily customised operating system for ARM devices
ROOL
Home | News | Downloads | Bugs | Bounties | Forum | Documents | Photos | Contact us
Account

Previous|Next

  • Tickets
  • » Ticket #374

Ticket #374 (WontFix)Mon Dec 09 21:48:09 UTC 2013

Keyboard doesn't use a default if keyboard unknown

Reported by: William Harden (2174) Severity: Minor
Part: Release:
Milestone: Status WontFix

Details by William Harden (2174):

Patch submitted for AppleUK Keyboard.

If you softload IntKey and then use KeyboardConfig to use the new Keyboard, and then reboot, the Boot will fail with ‘Unknown Country’ to the supervisor prompt.

Unknown Country / Territory defaults are set to UK – I would have expected if the Keyboard type is unknown that this would default to UK as well.

Unfortunately I’m not quite sure what is generating the ‘Unknown Country’ error – is it the USB HID code when the keyboard is detected?

Changelog:

Modified by William Harden (2174) Mon, December 09 2013 - 21:50:02 GMT

I should be clear: my submitted patch does not /fix/ the problem, it helps /exhibit/ the problem by providing a softloaded IntKey with a new keyboard.

But the bug would be relevant if the new IntKey was added to the ROM, and then a user (or more likely a developer) then tried to go back to an earlier ROM image.

Modified by Sprow (202) Sun, January 05 2014 - 09:29:28 GMT

  • Status changed from Open to WontFix

The ‘Unknown country’ error would come from the KbdSetup obey file output in PreDesk which contains the country name (which in turn selects the keyboard). It, and the *KEYBOARD command both require the country to exist.

While it would in theory be possible to make it not error, you’d then be in a situation where the keyboard is responding as the UK default but the plugin reports that a different one is being chosen.

Since this is rather a contrived error, requiring a developer to muck up loading the IntKey module too late in the boot sequence, or reverting a ROM having selected a non default keyboard, this feels like a no-fix. There are plenty of other things in unstable versions of RISC OS that would also fall into this category: effectively the extra country is equivalent to adding a new command and using it, then reverting to an older version without the command.

  • Comment on, or change status of, this ticket

Previous|Next

Search tickets

Social

Follow us on and

ROOL Store

Buy RISC OS Open merchandise here, including SD cards for Raspberry Pi and more.

Donate! Why?

Help ROOL make things happen – please consider donating!

RISC OS IPR

RISC OS is an Open Source operating system owned by RISC OS Developments Ltd and licensed primarily under the Apache 2.0 license.

Options

  • Tickets
  • New ticket
  • Milestones
  • Subversion: Changesets
  • Subversion: Browse
  • CVS: Revisions
  • CVS: Browse
  • Search

RSS feeds Rss

  • Tickets
  • Everything!
  • More feeds...
Site design © RISC OS Open Limited 2018 except where indicated
The RISC OS Open Collaboa theme is distantly based on the Collaboa default layout

Valid XHTML 1.0  |  Valid CSS

Powered by Collaboa
This site runs on Rails

Hosted by Arachsys