debian keyboard problem

debian keyboard problem

[Keith Barrett]

Wonder if anyone can help with this, not sure if it is speakup related?

Debian testing with dummy video driver as I do not have a screen connected.

If I have x running with orca, key presses in the gui are passed to the 
console or certainly to speakup.

Example, if I arrow through a list of files in gnome speakup is reading 
from the console at the same time.

The reverse is true, if I am using speakup keypresses are passed to the gui.

Any help with this appreciated.

Re: debian keyboard problem

[Samuel Thibault]

Keith Barrett, le Wed 26 Dec 2012 22:20:15 +0000, a écrit :
> Debian testing with dummy video driver as I do not have a screen connected.
> 
> If I have x running with orca, key presses in the gui are passed to the
> console or certainly to speakup.

Oops, it seems that the X server is indeed not allocating a VT and
eating keyboard events.  I'll have a look.

Samuel

Re: debian keyboard problem

[Keith Barrett]

On 29/12/2012 23:25, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Keith Barrett, le Wed 26 Dec 2012 22:20:15 +0000, a écrit :
>> Debian testing with dummy video driver as I do not have a screen connected.
>>
>> If I have x running with orca, key presses in the gui are passed to the
>> console or certainly to speakup.
>
> Oops, it seems that the X server is indeed not allocating a VT and
> eating keyboard events.  I'll have a look.

An update to this, I think I have more of a problem than was apparrent 
before.

I have now connected a screen but nothing is sent to it either in the 
consle or if I try and run x.

Bios and early boot messages get displayed and the last message is 
"waiting for dev to be fully populated".

When gdm starts, I get loads of error messages from the neuvo video driver.

Incidently, I did a fresh install with the same outcome but during the 
installation, the display was normal.

If I try and run X-configure I get "the number of screens did not match 
the number of devices exiting".

I assume I am right in thinking that x is not going to work unless I am 
getting some output to the screen?

Thanks
Keith

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Re: debian keyboard problem

[Samuel Thibault]

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Hello,

Keith Barrett, le Wed 26 Dec 2012 22:20:15 +0000, a écrit :
> Debian testing with dummy video driver as I do not have a screen connected.
> 
> If I have x running with orca, key presses in the gui are passed to the
> console or certainly to speakup.

Unfortunatelly somebody has broken this use indeed.  I'll discuss with
Xorg people on the matter.  Hopefully they'll agree on reverting the
default option to the old behavior. In the meanwhile, you can recompile
the xserver-xorg-video-dummy package with the attached patch.

Samuel

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commit 1ec9d5adaf753715b78377483a3a2d71a323d43e
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 30 00:58:51 2012 +0100

    Revert "Add support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE"
    
    This reverts commit e39d9a265572c273915f1803a729e7211d7b247b.

diff --git a/src/dummy_driver.c b/src/dummy_driver.c
index 6062c39..566a006 100644
--- a/src/dummy_driver.c
+++ b/src/dummy_driver.c
@@ -801,9 +801,6 @@ DUMMYCreateWindow(WindowPtr pWin)
     return TRUE;
 }
 
-#ifndef HW_SKIP_CONSOLE
-#define HW_SKIP_CONSOLE 4
-#endif
 
 static Bool
 dummyDriverFunc(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn, xorgDriverFuncOp op, pointer ptr)
@@ -813,7 +810,7 @@ dummyDriverFunc(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn, xorgDriverFuncOp op, pointer ptr)
     switch (op) {
 	case GET_REQUIRED_HW_INTERFACES:
 	    flag = (CARD32*)ptr;
-	    (*flag) = HW_SKIP_CONSOLE;
+	    (*flag) = 0;
 	    return TRUE;
 	default:
 	    return FALSE;