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

Jim Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 13:43:28 UTC 2020


On 8/27/20 8:43 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 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....
>
> -----
>
> 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

NEVER MIND. forget the post with the logging.  I when back and just 
adding my user 'ubuntu' to the 'input' group and ran the 
run_mythfrontend (modified) and it works fine.

Thanks,

Jim A




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