[JBNY]

Any idea why this happens?

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 MB
4GB RAM/Intel E8500 3.16GHz CPU
Logitech EX 110 Black USB Keyboard
Nvidia 9500GT
Ubuntu 8.04
i686
SVN:18041 Compiled install of SVN

When XBMC first starts the keyboard will not work. I have to stop XBMC with the remote, then restart from the command line (keyboard works) and then the keyboard functions fine in XBMC.

If I boot with a USB stick using XBMCLive 8.10 release my keyboard works fine.

Thanks
-Joe

[BLKMGK]

Tried unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in?

[JBNY]

yeah tried that, everytime the PC is turned on, the keyboard does not work when XBMC loads for the first time. strange

[Aron Parsons]

The answer will be in your Xorg log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log).

Do you have your keyboard and mouse hard-coded in your xorg.conf or are you letting them auto-detect?

[JBNY]

The mouse and keyboard are defined in my xorg.config but I did not manually add them, I don't know if it was added from the ubuntu install or something else. Is there something I should be looking for? there are no (EE) entries in the xorg.0.log

[opdenkamp]

can you find a line like

(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)

in your xorg.log?

[JBNY]

It's at the end of my log file

Code:

(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(**) Option "Protocol" "auto"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/psaux"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 9
(**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
(II) evaluating device (Mouse0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(--) Mouse0: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

[opdenkamp]

hmm strange, that looks right (if you have a ps2 keyboard). do you see something in the xbmc log (/var/tmp/username-xbmc.log) when you press buttons on your keyboard?

[m0rales]

Hi i have the exact same problem
My keyboard is a Microsoft ps2 keyboard
i have 2 installations one with interpid and one with hardy

on interpid works all fine
on hardy i cannot set keyboard to work , expept only if i do xbmc restart

[m0rales]

anyone ?

[mcfan]

I think problem appears when you already added "Autostart XBMC" from older version of the HOW-TO and now just tried the NEW Autostart section.

This was also not working for me, Keyboard not responding. I switched back
and now its working again.

So maybe a problem with the GUIDE for Hardy?