BT keyboards with FR?

Jeff Sadowski jeff.sadowski at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 16:13:03 CEST 2008


You mean none of you have the
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ Laser projected
keyboard?
Would it work?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Esben Stien <b0ef at esben-stien.name> wrote:
> Ben Holt <ben at computerdolt.com> writes:
>
>> I am considering buying a portable BT keyboard to go with my
>> FreeRunner and would appreciate hearing from anyone who is already
>> using a BT keyboard
>
> I'm using Debian with a dinovo mini and first of all I must say that
> the mousepad on this keyboard is pretty awesome, though the keys are a
> little strange (no ctrl on right side and no meta on left, f.ex) and
> it's not really built for field use.
>
> I still haven't set it up right, so I run a script at every boot :
>
> modprobe hci_usb &&
> modprobe ohci-hcd &&
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on &&
> echo 0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/reset &&
>
> hidd --search
>
> I need to press the connect button on the keyboard at every boot, so
> need a solution there.
>
> I do have problems typing in console, as it seems to just drop certain
> characters. Really strange. In Xorg it works flawlessly.
>
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