tty[1-6] unusable

[Felix Miata]

Same behavior on Kubuntu 5.10 Edubuntu 5.10 on every one of about 10 installs on
two different machines with ordinary 101 and 104 key keyboards having totally
different CPU, video and chipset.

To reproduce:
1-install US English from CD on freshly formatted partititon(s)
2-install mc (not required, just makes bad result immediately apparent)
3-switch to any of tty[1-6] with Ctrl-Alt-Fn
4-login as root
5-open mc
6-use cursor pad keys, such as up, down, home or end

Actual behavior:
1-screen is scrolled unexpectedly
2-error messages litter screen
3-cursor position difficult or impossible to determine
4-keyboard input difficult or impossible to find echoed to screen

Expected behavior:
1-screen scrolls only when expected
2-no error message echo to screen (unless due to user error)
3-cursor position easily determined
4-keyboard input normal

I've had no success finding out how to capture console output in a screenshot,
but the error messages include: "atkbd.c Unknown key released (translated set 2,
code 0xaa on isa0060/serio0)." and "atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to
make it known."

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

This sounds more like a big in mc/ncurses...

[kko (kko)]

I believe this is a case of a dysfunctional keyboard-setup in Ubuntu. A description of this issue (with details) is in bug 41384.

I have, accordingly, marked this report as a duplicate, due to this report's title not closely reflecting the issue at hand. The title does, though, give an idea of what a dysfunctional keyboard setup feels like...

[kko (kko)]

EDIT: Typo, the previous reference should be bug 41834.