[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#645892: virtualbox-ose: Neo-layout keyboard in host is not supported, wrong VBoxKeyboard.so provided?

[Johannes Fichtinger]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 4.1.4-dfsg-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

I am using virtualbox-ose on Debian SID host with a NEO2 Keyboard layout (see
http://www.neo-layout.org). If I use this keyboard while starting a Windows
session in Virtualbox, several keys don’t work: for example [CAPS]+[l] for
“-” etc.

This bug has been reported on the Virtualbox project page as report #2595
(https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2595), and has been fixed with version 4.
The fix for Virtualbox is an updated VBoxKeyboard.so file, as discussed in the
bug report.

It seems that Debian is shipping still the old version of VBoxKeyboard.so with
virtualbox-ose. If I simply overwrite the existing file with the version
attached to the bug report, everything works fine.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  virtualbox  4.1.4-dfsg-1

virtualbox-ose recommends no packages.

virtualbox-ose suggests no packages.

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