[OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Unable to rebind keyboard device in vm-display-fbdev (FrameBuffer) (#575)
With libevdev, mouse and keyboard are bound to devices in /dev/input with names like "event0" and "event1". Different keyboard/mouse hw binds to different numbers, so it is important to allow overrides via shell variables. E.g. SQUEAK_MSDEV=/dev/input/event1 SQUEAK_KBDEV=/dev/input/event0 vs SQUEAK_MSDEV=/dev/input/event0 SQUEAK_KBDEV=/dev/input/event1
Mouse rebinding works, but not keyboard rebinding.
Closed #575 as completed.
Using evtest I was able to determine device mapping /dev/input/event0 -> menu-keys event1 -> audio jack event2 -> track pad event3 -> mouse event4 -> keyboard (raw keystrokes) event5 -> system control (e.g. sleep) event6 -> keyboard events (keycodes)
So binding SQUEAK_KBDEV=/dev/input/event6 SQUEAK_MSDEV=/dev/input/event3 then the Framebuffer display works just fine
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Ken Dickey