Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, January 13, 2007 5:58 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
Onward!
I bought the Gyration wireless keyboard/mouse for the Myth box:
http://www.gyration.com/en-US/ProductDetail.html?modelnum=GC1105CKM&accshow=3
According to Bruce Perens, it should work:
http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/gyration.html
The module Perens points to is loading:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sysconfig]# lsmod |grep stap_pci
hostap_pci 61813 0
hostap 113609 1 hostap_pci
Huh? This has nothing to do with USB, it's for a wireless card. It also
isn't even mentioned on the web page you reference. You are confused.
Well, the radio reciever for the kb is USB, which is why I included the
tail -f below (which says "USB"). So perhaps I should have mentioned that.
No, the radio receiver is in the device. Its operation is hidden from
the computer which has no idea that it is a radio device. The computer
thinks the device is a keyboard and mouse. The only part it sees is the
USB interface. The radio part is between the physical keyboard/mouse and
the USB dongle and that is some proprietary stuff that is hidden behind
the USB interface.
By the way, you won't see any of those modules that Perens lists because
they are compiled into the Fedora kernel. That's so that USB devices can
be used on bootup without resorting to modules in an initrd except for
choosing ohci/uhci/ehci..
Look at /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 or whatever happens to match your
running kernel. It provides the description of how Redhat configured the
kernel you are running.
Here is tail -f as I put in the USB receiver:
Jan 13 16:21:37 xena kernel: usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using
uhci_hcd and address 7
Jan 13 16:21:37 xena kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1
choice
Jan 13 16:21:37 xena kernel: input: Gyration Gyration RF Technology
Receiver as /class/input/input8
Jan 13 16:21:37 xena kernel: input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard
[Gyration Gyration RF Technology Receiver] on usb-0000:00:10.1-2
Jan 13 16:21:37 xena kernel: input: Gyration Gyration RF Technology
Receiver as /class/input/input9
Jan 13 16:21:37 xena kernel: input,hiddev97: USB HID v1.20 Mouse
[Gyration
Gyration RF Technology Receiver] on usb-0000:00:10.1-2
Now to my reading, the first line of this which says it uses uhci_hcd is
the suspect one. But I don't know if I'm right, and I don't know what to
do about it.
I am testing at the CLI, but have this for later:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7361
Gyration's tech support is drain bed on Linux.
You don't state what the problem is. The system detected a new USB
device, it figured out what it was, and it told you so.
The keyboard is available as /class/input/input8 and the mouse is
available as /class/input/input9.
So this is good, no?
Yes, it means the keyboard and mouse were detected and configured as
input devices.
Now (remembering who you're talking to -- *very small words*), how do I
tell my system to get its keystrokes from /class/input/input8? Something
in /etc/sysconfig?
You don't do anything with the/class/input/??? files. They are there for
the system to use.
Make sure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is properly set up. In the
InputDevice section you need to make sure the right input is selected
like so:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Notice the use of the word "mice". Yes, it needs to be plural. The
keyboard doesn't need anything extra.
A good test is to plug in a regular PS/2 keyboard and mouse AND the
Gyration USB keyboard/mouse. Start up X. You should be able to move the
mouse cursor with both the PS/2 mouse AND the Gyration mouse. Both
keyboards should work also. If neither Gyration piece is working there
may be a problem with the Gyration itself.
Are you sure the batteries are OK?
Also, why are you using a keyboard/mouse instead of the wireless remote
that came with the PVR-150 card? The PVR-150 works with lirc (Linux
Infrared Controller) and lets you do all the stuff for MythTV. You
didn't need to buy the wireless keyboard/mouse. This is a pretty serious
lapse for a CB.
Gus
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