Re: keyboard not working

Re: keyboard not working

[Juan Medina]

******************************
Somebody please FAQ this somewhere
******************************

Found the solution somewhere in the email list (took
me a while to perform
the proper query).

Check this out:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-08/msg00145.html

As described there, the X server global variables 
XAPPLRESDIR, XCMSDB,
XKEYSYMDB and XNLSPATH  were set by some other program
to point to
/usr/X11R5. The latest Xfree included with Cygwin
seems to be checking on
this and so it does not work (Cygwin location for
these is /usr/X11R6, not
R5). In the message Pavel mentions Microsoft Services
for Unix, which I have
installed too. I am almost sure this is the one that
created those system
variables.

As I do not use X from SFU (I only need the nfs
capability so my local
Windows drives can be accessed from Linux without
Samba), I really do not
care about breaking up X there and so I just got rid
of those variables.

I hope this is also the solution you were looking for,

Best Regards,

JUAN

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Re: keyboard not working
  a.. From: Stephan Schaefer <s dot schaefer at sun
dot com>
  b.. To: alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot
tu-chemnitz dot de
  c.. Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
  d.. Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:16:24 +0100
  e.. Subject: Re: keyboard not working
  f.. Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

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Which programs have you tried? Please also run xev for
testing and press
some keys in the "Event Test" window. Are there some
ButtonPress events
reported?

Yes! Mouseevents are all reported correctly.
Additionally I see events from
Shift/Ctrl/Alt and, most surprising, the numeric
keypad is working as well.
Still nothing from the rest of the keyboard....

Stephan


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Re: keyboard not working

[Stephan Schaefer]

Hi Juan,

Thanks a lot ! That exactly solves my problem. I also had SFU installed :(

Best regards
Stephan


> 
> Check this out:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-08/msg00145.html
> 

Re: keyboard not working

[Harold L Hunt II]

Just a question for anybody that uses SFU --- Does SFU have an X Server? 
  I didn't think that it did... I thought it included some limited X 
stuff for command-line clients or perhaps to allow clients to be 
displayed on remote machines.  Does anyone know what SFU actually has? 
I want to make sure it hasn't gotten too far advanced while I was not 
looking :)

Harold

Juan Medina wrote:
> ******************************
> Somebody please FAQ this somewhere
> ******************************
> 
> Found the solution somewhere in the email list (took
> me a while to perform
> the proper query).
> 
> Check this out:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-08/msg00145.html
> 
> As described there, the X server global variables 
> XAPPLRESDIR, XCMSDB,
> XKEYSYMDB and XNLSPATH  were set by some other program
> to point to
> /usr/X11R5. The latest Xfree included with Cygwin
> seems to be checking on
> this and so it does not work (Cygwin location for
> these is /usr/X11R6, not
> R5). In the message Pavel mentions Microsoft Services
> for Unix, which I have
> installed too. I am almost sure this is the one that
> created those system
> variables.
> 
> As I do not use X from SFU (I only need the nfs
> capability so my local
> Windows drives can be accessed from Linux without
> Samba), I really do not
> care about breaking up X there and so I just got rid
> of those variables.
> 
> I hope this is also the solution you were looking for,
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> JUAN
> 
> This is the mail archive of the
> cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com mailing list for the
> Cygwin XFree86 project.
> 
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> Re: keyboard not working
>   a.. From: Stephan Schaefer <s dot schaefer at sun
> dot com>
>   b.. To: alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot
> tu-chemnitz dot de
>   c.. Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
>   d.. Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:16:24 +0100
>   e.. Subject: Re: keyboard not working
>   f.. Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> 
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> 
> Which programs have you tried? Please also run xev for
> testing and press
> some keys in the "Event Test" window. Are there some
> ButtonPress events
> reported?
> 
> Yes! Mouseevents are all reported correctly.
> Additionally I see events from
> Shift/Ctrl/Alt and, most surprising, the numeric
> keypad is working as well.
> Still nothing from the rest of the keyboard....
> 
> Stephan
> 
> 
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Re: keyboard not working

[Stephan Schaefer]

SFU 3.0 has no X server, but it has the standard X11 binaries like 
xterm, xclock, etc that can be started from its own C-Shell. Of course 
this requires a running X Server.

Stephan

Re: keyboard not working

[Juan Medina]

Hi!

I have just seen this thread, and report EXACTLY the
same problems that
Stephan has reported. Mouse, Shift, Alt, Ctrl and the
numeric keys do work,
the rest does not.

I am using a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. I do have the
latest DirectX too
(don't know if that is related).

Xterm does not show characters typed other than
numeric chars. xev reports
what I mentioned on the previous paragraph.

RXVT does not accept input either UNLESS I unset
DISPLAY (last version I had
did not have this requirement).

I have tried to solve this problem by getting a sample
XF86Config file and
putting in the setting

Option "XkbModel"    "microsoft"

to no avail. Any hints on what might be happening
would be greatly welcomed.
I totally depend on Cygwin (I use rxvt all the time),
so I would greatly
appreciate hints on what to do.

Best Regards,

JUAN M. MEDINA
  a.. From: Stephan Schaefer <s dot schaefer at sun
dot com>
  b.. To: alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot
tu-chemnitz dot de
  c.. Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
  d.. Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:16:24 +0100
  e.. Subject: Re: keyboard not working
  f.. Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

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Which programs have you tried? Please also run xev for
testing and press
some keys in the "Event Test" window. Are there some
ButtonPress events
reported?

Yes! Mouseevents are all reported correctly.
Additionally I see events from
Shift/Ctrl/Alt and, most surprising, the numeric
keypad is working as well.
Still nothing from the rest of the keyboard....

Stephan


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Re: keyboard not working

[Stephan Schaefer]

> Which programs have you tried? Please also run xev for testing and press
> some keys in the "Event Test" window. Are there some ButtonPress events
> reported?

Yes! Mouseevents are all reported correctly. Additionally I see events 
from Shift/Ctrl/Alt and, most surprising, the numeric keypad is working 
as well. Still nothing from the rest of the keyboard....

Stephan

keyboard not working

[Stephan Schaefer]

Hi,

I just installed the most recent Xfree version but cannot input 
anything. I saw others reporting the same problem but nobody confirmed 
the problem officially.
I added an XF86Config file with keyboard entries (the one from the 
chemnitz page) and the errors about not having a keyboard configured 
disappeared from the logfile, but still no key stroke is recognized.

Any hints ?

Stephan

Re: keyboard not working

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Stephan Schaefer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed the most recent Xfree version but cannot input 
> anything. I saw others reporting the same problem but nobody confirmed 
> the problem officially.
> I added an XF86Config file with keyboard entries (the one from the 
> chemnitz page) and the errors about not having a keyboard configured 
> disappeared from the logfile, but still no key stroke is recognized.

Which programs have you tried? Please also run xev for testing and press
some keys in the "Event Test" window. Are there some ButtonPress events
reported?

bye
	ago
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