XBMC not using my keyboard correctly

[veto1024]

Hi everyone, I have a bit of an issue. I just installed rasbpian and an XBMC from http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc and I've noticed a problem. Whenever I need to type something out (like the name to a video directory I made or the login name/pass to get into the computer to make said login directory), I get the on-screen keyboard. I have a USB keyboard plugged in that works fine but I can't use it to type in xbmc.

The really weird thing is that I seem to be able to use shortcuts! The arrow keys work, pressing various letters on my keyboard seem to activate shortcuts (such as pressing 's' brings up the exit screen), but it's impossible to actually use the keyboard to... ya know, type words Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

[Blueblue]

Hi! I was having the same problem but noticed that when I started XBMC as superuser (sudo), the keyboard was working fine and I was able to type with it as well.

[Blueblue]

"Sudo" did solve the problem of typing text with the keyboard, but it unfortunately created another problem for me. I'm using a wireless Rapoo E2700 keyboard which have some multimedia button on it. Those buttons are working fine when login in as normal user. But when I login as superuser some of the button stops working e.g. pause, play, lowering the volume. Increasing the volume did although work!? Any ideas?

[forenbenutzer]

Still same problem here. Any ideas?

[isaque]

I also have this problem.
It only happen with XBMC with raspbian only. Raspbmc and Openelec didn't present that problem.

[isaque]

Just found the solution, taking a look in Raspbmc setup, it has a udev rule.

Create /etc/udev/rules.d/10-permissions.rules with the following content:

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# input
KERNEL=="mouse*|mice|event*",   MODE="0660", GROUP="input"
KERNEL=="ts[0-9]*|uinput",      MODE="0660", GROUP="input"
KERNEL=="js[0-9]*",             MODE="0660", GROUP="input"

# tty
KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*",            MODE="0666"

# vchiq
SUBSYSTEM=="vchiq",  GROUP="video", MODE="0660"

Make sure your user is added to input group.

[rmomota]

I had the same problem and that worked.

Thanks!

[Lews Therin]

My Keyboard was not responding at all, but the above fix worked. I'm surprised that permission file isn't created by default. Thanks for the help guys