[mythtv-users] keyboard dead in mythfrontend and mythtv-setup
Stuart Auchterlonie
stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Thu Aug 27 10:15:15 UTC 2020
On 27/08/2020 02:46, James Abernathy wrote:
> I know I'm doing something weird, but maybe someone knows a fix.
>
> I have a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB running Ubuntu 20.04 Server 64 bit (arm64)
> with a minimal xserver-xorg and xfce4 with xinit. I built mythtv v31
> from source per the wiki using ansible for dependencies, and ./configure
> --prefix=/usr --disable-vaapi --disable-vdpau --enable-opengl.
>
> I used MikeB's pi-utils for setting up the rest of the backend
> components including mariadb. I used pi-utils/run_mythsetup.sh to run
> from the console mythtv-setup and on the main screen I can't select
> anything or move the highlight choice. It's like the keyboard is dead.
> Same thing on mythfrontend.
>
> However, if I startx and open a terminal in xfce4, I can run
> mythtv-setup and mythfrontend just fine. Everything works fine. I'm
> using opengl with 4 cpus and the video quality is comparable to
> raspbian 32 bit OS at the command line.
>
> I keep thinking that running from console like I do on normal v31
> install of mythtv-light would be the best picture, but can't test it
> until I fix the lost keyboard function.
>
> Any ideas?
>
IIRC markk said it was something deep down in the guts of Qt that
causes this.
Mark can you explain?
Regards
Stuart
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