Re: xserver-kdrive 1.4 and USB keyboard

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

Cliff Brake wrote:
> Does anyone have this combination working yet?
>
> On my system, ctrl-alt-f1 does not work, and caps/num lock lights do
> not work when X is running.  Keyboard works fine at the console.

I suspect that's because kdrive 1.4 lacks a default keymap. Graeme 
provided a really bare-bones one that makes X access keys (e.g. xkbd, 
matchbox-keyboard). Making USB keyboards work properly proved to be too 
much work, so I am now using full-blown Xorg on anything with a 
usb-keyboard. Having said that, the A-z keys did work on beagle, the 
fact that left-mouse button clicks produced a 'q' was the final straw 
(clock on window running powertop - boom).
Something is very broken in kdrive, which might be due to people working 
on it only care for tablets from a certain scandinavian company.

regards,

Koen


>
> It works fine with xserver-kdrive-fbdev 1.3
>
> with 1.4, it seem there are some options added:
>
> -keybd driver [,,options]      Specify the keyboard driver and its options
> -kb                    disable the X Keyboard Extension
> +kb                    enable the X Keyboard Extension
>
> In the source code, I found the following:
>
>   ./hw/kdrive/ephyr/Xephyr :1 -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ -mouse
> ephyr -keybd ephyr,,xkblayout=br,xkbmodel=abnt2
>
> /*
>   * You can call your kdriver server with something like:
>   * $ ./hw/kdrive/yourserver/X :1 -mouse evdev,,device=/dev/input/event4 -keybd
>   * evdev,,device=/dev/input/event1,xkbmodel=abnt2,xkblayout=br
>   */
>
> there are a few patch files that might be related:
> ./xserver-kdrive-1.4.0.90/no_xkb.patch
> ./xserver-kdrive/optional-xkb.patch
>
> I'm slogging through the source code, but would appreciate any ideas
> from anyone who understands this or has it working.
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
>