So I won't be able to use my serial/USB input devices when running DFB
through ssh or the serial console? ouch.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Niels Roest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Input - when I say that I don't have Linux input support I mean that
>> while I have serial, USB and PS/2 (emulated) support in the serial console,
>> in network terminals and under X, I don't have kernel support for the new
>> input architecture ("linux input",
>> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/<http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Evojtech/input/><
>> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Evojtech/input/>, also see the
>> inputdrivers/linux_input in directfb 1.3 source package). Since my input
>> devices work fine on the other software environments I'm guessing it's a
>> configuration issue that I'm having. In any case I tried the df_input
>> example and from it I learned that my USB keyboard does in fact work but the
>> keys are all messed up. Hopefully this would ring a bell for you. My mouse
>> doesn't seem to work at all in DFB.
>>
>> hm.. PS2 mouse should be ok.
> If you are just using the keyboard driver below, than your USB keyboard is
> opened via /dev/tty0, maybe that's causing some problems. Sorry, doesn't
> ring a bell.
> Alternatively, you can try to add linux-input-devices=... to your
> directfbrc, if you know your nodes.
>
> 3. I'm using devmem and DFB seems to select "DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9"
>> as the input device. Also note I'm running DFB application from an SSH
>> terminal, and DFB doesn't seem to react to the terminal keyboard. The output
>> of dfbinfo is:
>> ---------
>> Screen (00) Screen (primary screen)
>> Caps:
>>
>> Layer (00) GFX layer (primary layer)
>> Type: GRAPHICS
>> Caps: SURFACE SCREEN_LOCATION SCREEN_POSITION SCREEN_SIZE
>>
>>
>> Input (00) Keyboard (primary keyboard)
>> Type: KEYBOARD
>> Caps: KEYS
>> Min. Keycode: 0
>> Max. Keycode: 127
>>
> This is the default keyboard driver.
> It will simply open /dev/tty0, and then performs some nice tcsetattr stuff.
> Guess no network supported here..
>
>> ---------
>>
>>
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