[Angstrom-devel] Opie Images

[Ian Bonham]

Sorry, this is one of them bugs thats really difficult to explain!
I've just rebooted it from cold (battery reset switch), and immediantly
opened a shell before doing anything else. It's open in landscape, as a clam
shell unit, with the keyboard available. I typed in '123456' as a junk line
and hit enter to put something in the cli history. Then tried cursor key up,
to get the last cli command. That gives nothing. Then I pressed cursor key
right, and that gave me the 123456 back. So I am assuming that right is
being translated as up. Pressing left after that takes me back to a clean
command prompt, so I am guessing left is being read as down.
When I have text entered at the cli prompt, I can use up to move left
through the line, and down to move right through the line.
I then rotate the screen and it switches into portrait mode as expected. In
this mode I can't access the kb very easily, so then rotate it back to the
landscape mode to get back to the kb.
Once back in landscape mode, I've found the cursor keys stay the same. So it
seems screen rotation does not affect the cursor key bug. The keys are just
mis-read.
Have I made more sense this time?! Let me know if not! :)

Bon



On 12/01/2008, Paul Eggleton <bluelightning at bluelightning.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Ian Bonham wrote:
> > Then I opened a shell and tried using the cursor
> > keys, Up became Left, Down became Right, Left and Right key presses no
> > longer do anything.
>
> OK, this was kind of expected. Useful because it confirms my thinking that
> the
> code could never have really worked in its current state :)
>
> > Then I rebooted it, and found even without a screen flip they are still
> > buggered up. Up is still left, Down is still Right, Left is Up and Right
> is
> > down.
>
> So just to check if I understand you correctly, is it the case that the
> cursor
> keys work as expected in portrait and not in landscape, or is it (as it
> sounds) a bit more complicated than that?
>
> > Is that any help mate?
>
> Very helpful so far, thanks :)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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