Re: [Ltib] Re: USB keyboard with Xfbdev

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi all,

I just found that if I update to 1.4.2 it fixes the problem (not sure
why).

Any objections if I update the baseline to this?  the only fallout is
that xorg-server-1.4-1221245484.patch needs splitting out (which I'll
do).

BTW: anyone know why it takes a while for the mouse to "discover" the
right protocol and why the keyboard driver complains, I see this:

$ ssh macg4 -l root
~ #  Xfbdev -ac -mouse mouse -keybd keyboard &
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
Couldn't find keyboard driver keybd
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
~ # DISPLAY=:0 twm
Switching to mouse protocol "imps/2"
Switching to mouse protocol "exps/2"
Switching to mouse protocol "bus"
Switching to mouse protocol "ps/2"

And when I kill twm I see:

^C~ # FreeFontPath: FPE "built-ins" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
Couldn't find keyboard driver keybd
Mouse device is serial port, protocol exps/2 is not serial protocol
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base

Regards, Stuart

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 14:00 +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Just a quick update.  I figured out in the end that what I was doing was
> building the full Xorg, rather than staying with Kdrive. 
> 
> It seems that Kdrive should support USB keyboards without
> xf86-input-keyboard-1.3  (I think).  In xorg-server-1.4 I think things
> changed.  I can no longer find an option: BuildXInputExt as Alan
> suggested.
> 
> I googled around and it seems as though there may be some problem with
> this version:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038581.html
> However so far I've not really come up with a solution.
> 
> If anyone has an ideas, please speak up as I'm flapping around a bit
> here (I don't really structurally understand how xorg fits together).
> 
> Regards, Stuart
> 
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 17:24 +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I need a bit of help here. In order to try to get the keyboard working,
> > I added xf86-input-keyboard-1.3 as suggested.  This failed to build as
> > the rootfs was missing xorg-server.h.  So after chasing that I found I
> > needed to remove --disable-xorg from the xorg-server.spec file.  However
> > the build of this now fails with: X11/extensions/xf86dgastr.h: and so I
> > removed  --disable-dga from the spec file and enable it and it now fails
> > in configure with: No package 'xf86dgaproto' found
> > 
> > Before I get into a recursive loop of death, is my approach sane, or
> > should I just copy xorg-server.h manually?  any idea?
> > 
> > Regards, Stuart
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:16 -0200, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote:
> > > Stuart,
> > > 
> > > probably some X packages missing, like the keyboard driver
> > > (xf86-input-keyboard):
> > > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/
> > > 
> > > Did Alan's tip work for you ?
> > > 
> > > --lf
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 2008/10/27 Stuart Hughes <address@hidden>:
> > > > Hi Luis/everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I've been doing some more packaging and testing.  All looks good, but I
> > > > can't get the keyboard input working.  I've tried changing the
> > > > xorg-server configure line by removing: --enable-tslib --disable-xkb
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know how to get a USB keyboard working with this Kdrive X server?
> > > > BTW: it works fine at the console.
> > > >
> > > > Regards, Stuart
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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