USB keyboard with Xfbdev (again)

John Tapsell johnflux at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 07:16:28 PST 2008


Hi Stuart,

  I have no idea about your problem, but for what it's worth have you
considered just using Xorg instead of kdrive?

John

2008/11/14 Stuart Hughes <seh at zee2.com>:
> Hi Cliff,
>
> I saw your posting here:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038581.html
> and wondered if you or anyone else managed to resolve this.
>
> I'm cross compiling xorg-server-1.4 for a powerpc 7400 (MAC G4) and
> Xfbdev starts and the mouse works (eventually), but I get nothing from
> the USB keyboard (I started twm and tried typing an xterm).
>
> I'm starting it like this and see:
>
> # Xfbdev -mouse mouse -keybd xkb
> Couldn't find keyboard driver keybd
> Couldn't find keyboard driver xkb
>
> I've tried other combinations, but nothing seems to work.  I'm passing
> the following to configure when I build it (all one line):
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=powerpc-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> --enable-composite --enable-kdrive --disable-dri --disable-xinerama
> --disable-xf86misc --disable-xf86vidmode --disable-xorg
> --disable-xorgcfg --disable-xnest --disable-xvfb --disable-xevie
> --disable-xprint --disable-xtrap --enable-xfbdev --disable-dmx
> --enable-builtin-fonts --disable-dbus --disable-ipv6 --enable-xkb
> --enable-kbd_mode
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
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