[Angstrom-devel] Opie Images

[Paul Eggleton]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Ian Bonham wrote:
> 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.

Ah, right, now I understand more. Having never handled one of these devices I 
was unaware that the keyboard would be inaccessible when in portrait mode, 
though of course thinking about it, it makes perfect sense.

I should be able to file a bug for this (with a patch to fix it) shortly.

Cheers,
Paul