[mythtv-users] What IR ... --> Need Help, Trackball doesn't work
Alen Edwards
allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com
Thu Jul 3 04:11:48 UTC 2008
> When I bought it, it was this model:
> http://www.cwol.com/keyboards/sk7551.htm
> which looks like you can still get it from here:
> http://www.pctekonline.com/skcomwirkeyw.html
>
> I've been very happy with the results
>
> Kevin
>
I got my new IR keyboard today. I bought the one recommenced in Kevin's
post. It looks great although it is not the one pictured in the first
link. The second link has no picture. It is a rather small keyboard
without any multimedia keys and with a trackball instead of a pointing
device. It actually looks just like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823166049
I like the look and size a lot. It seems to work up to about 20 feet at
which point it seems to be missing events. I am very happy with it.
Except.... I cannot get the track ball to work. Both the trackball and
the two buttons only flash the lights on the IR module, they don't move
the cursor in an X screen or open any menus. It works on my Windows XP
computer just fine so it isn't defective.
I Googled and found a few things. One suggested changing xorg.conf from:
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
to:
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
I tried this, restarted X, and there was no change. I also tried mouse0
instead of mice.
Another suggested installing some program but as I learned on my last
"adventure" it isn't always (ever) a good idea to randomly try things
you read in posts.
I read the xorg.conf documentation and could not find anything that
looked wrong in my configuration (below). A few posts talked about
mouse problems in 7.10 but there was talk that these were fixed in 8.04
and I have certainly not had any trouble with my simple MS mouse on my
myth machine.
It is always something...
I hope someone can help me here. Perhaps some postings of an xorg.conf
that work for such a keyboard would be helpful although I don't want to
second guess the solution. Part of xorg.conf is below
Allen
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
---snip---
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
---snip----
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