[mythtv-users] Mouseless / Keyboardless Frontend

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Poobah wrote:

> I’ve got Myth running on a diskless Shuttle XPC frontend, and want to 
> make it as much of an “appliance” as possible without looking like a 
> computer. The keyboard and mouse sticking out will lower the WAF in 
> that area. The front end boots, logs itself in, runs X, and fires up 
> mythfrontend without any intervention, and doesn’t need the keyboard 
> or mouse.
>
There are lots of things you need a keyboard for in Myth. Pick up a 
nice, small, wireless keyboard and then it'll not be in the way. A mouse 
on the other hand is mostly useless. Just don't plug one in

> Is it possible to get X to start without a mouse and keyboard defined 
> (X drops out complaining of no core pointer / keyboard defined if I 
> comment them out)? Or, is there a “dummy” driver that LIRC can still 
> feed key presses to with no keyboard present?
>
You *want* a keyboard available, if you go wireless you can stick it in 
a drawer.


> I want to get it running under direct FB, but haven’t made it that far 
> yet. Will that simplify my problem? I’ve got LIRC compiled in myth, so 
> I don’t need irxevent. I haven’t seen much good/bad/ugly about direct 
> FB, but I haven’t looked much…
>

If by simplify you mean cause lots of problems for little or no benefit, 
sure it'll simplify things.