[yocto] No keyboard in X

[Chris Tapp]

On 21 Mar 2013, at 20:38, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

> On 21/03/13 20:11, Chris Tapp wrote:
>> I've got a system (Danny, meta-intel-cedartrail) with a custom
>> /etc/mini_x/session file which is used to run an application at
>> startup.
>> 
>> This all works to the extent that the application starts and runs,
>> but the keyboard doesn't work - 'Esc' should cause the application to
>> terminate and the X session to end. The Xorg log shows that the
>> session is "Using VT number 2".
>> 
>> If I kill the session manually, login on the tty and restart (using
>> 'init 4', 'init 5') then the application runs as before but this time
>> the keyboard works as expected.
>> 
>> inittab runs a getty on tty1 to tty4.
> 
> Could be permissions; if you are not starting X as root, you have to
> make sure the X user has rw permissions to /dev/ttyN and /dev/input/*


Looking at the S09xserver-nodm script in rc5.d, it's started using:

       su -l -c '/etc/X11/Xserver&' $username 

where 'username' is set to 'root', so it looks like that should be ok.

Chris Tapp

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