On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:48 PM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > This deserves a new thread, as it is not related to purchase of > replacement keyboards. So I'm changing subject of post and including > your post below. > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:47:13AM +0000, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: >> I plug a logitech wireless trackpad with keyboard on to a >> XO1.75. The keyboard is recognised but not the trackpad. No luck >> with just a stand alone wireless mouse also. >> >> Are there things I need to do to get wireless input access on the >> XO? > > Yes. > > There are too many Logitech wireless trackpads with keyboard to be > able to identify your particular device; could you please supply the > model number, and the USB vendor and product identifiers shown by the > "sudo lsusb -v" command. > > There are too many ways in which a device may present the USB HID > (human interface device) features to the host computer; if you can > provide the "sudo lsusb -v" command output then I can check that. > > You may need to "sudo yum install -y lsusb" to get the lsusb program > installed. > > Moving on to speculation: > > Some devices are not intentionally supported by OLPC OS, for reasons > of space. It is possible to add support. > > Some devices are not sadly not supported by Linux. This particular > device is unlikely to be affected, since other references to it show > support on other Linux distributions [1]. > > Our ticket #12616 [2] seems likely to be the cause of your problem. > Please check to see if any of the workarounds in that ticket fix it > for you. In particular, try stopping olpc-kbdshim process, > > sudo systemctl stop olpc-kbdshim.service
FWIW, the MakeyMakey activity [1] does this for you. regards. -walter [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4729 > > But this also disables keyboard and touchpad idle detection, rotate > key, touchpad and arrow keys screen rotation support, grab scrolling > key, volume keys, and brightness keys. > > You might also try the MakeyMakey activity on Sugar Labs [3], which > uses the same workaround. > > +CC Paul Fox, for interest as olpc-kbdshim author. > > References: > > [1] http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Keyboards > > [2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12616 > > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/MakeyMakey > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel