[mythtv-users] keyboard dead in mythfrontend and mythtv-setup

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 27/08/2020 11:15, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 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?
> 

Mark replied to me, so i've copied it here....

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This is presumably a permissions issue.

To confirm, get some logging from Qt QPA

QT_LOGGING_RULES=qt.qpa.*=true mythfrontend

More than likely need to add the current user to the 'input' group -
or whatever group owns /dev/input.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Regards
Mark