Ubuntu
dosbox package

Arrow keys reading incorrectly

Bug #283273 reported by Jacob D'Agostino
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: dosbox

As of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), Dosbox no longer reads the arrow keys correctly on my system. The up arrow is being read as the "printscreen" key, the left arrow is being read as the "left alt" key (and the "left alt" key is being read as "numpad enter"), and the down and right arrow keys are being read as "unknown key", making it impossible to properly bind them with the ctrl-F1 feature.

Apparently Dosbox didn't really change between 8.04 and 8.10, so I have no idea what could be causing this?

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Peter Veenstra (spiru) wrote :

according to a report on our forums it seems that issue will be fixed if you set
usescancodes=false in dosbox.conf

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filippo333 (filippo333-hotmail) wrote :

Where exactly is "dosbox.conf"?

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Peter Veenstra (spiru) wrote : Re: [Bug 283273] Re: Arrow keys reading incorrectly

You create it as indicated in the README file.

to save you some work
start dosbox and type
config -writeconf dosbox.conf

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, filippo333 wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 287894 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287894
>
> Where exactly is "dosbox.conf"?
>
>

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Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden) wrote :

The usescancodes trick only works for US layout keyboards, for all others it will break parts of the layout.

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