[Om2009] bluetooth keyboard - key presses not making it to X

Tim Abell tim at timwise.co.uk
Fri Jul 3 17:14:56 CEST 2009


On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:52:20 +0100
Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Friday 03 July 2009, Tim Abell wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I had seen that bug but hadn't known
> > what to try.
> >
> > I've now updated to shr-unstable, and have exactly the same
> > symptoms as before, with  events showing in hcidump but not in xev.
> > I've tried changing the startup parameters of Xglamo as suggested,
> > I tried removing vt1, I tried replacing it with vt0 (x won't start
> > like that), and vt2. None of these fixed the problem.
> >
> > It may be worth noting that if I stop X, then I don't get any output
> > from the bluetooth keyboard appearing on the console on the phone
> > unlike in the bug report you mention.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> If input isn't getting to the console either then check whether the
> keyboard is actually appearing as an input device. You could check
> dmesg or logread, or try:
> 	ls -l /dev/input/by-path/
> 	hal-find-by-capability --capability input.keyboard
> 
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thanks all for your input . i'll be offline for a bit but will work
through all help as soon as i can .

msg sent with claws mail on shr unstable. woo !

Tim 



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