Re: X without a keyboard

On 2017/05/22 09:54, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Unsure if this is considered a bug or not, but does anyone know of a way
> to get X to start without a keyboard device?

For the benefit of the archives, I had an off-list reply with
this suggestion:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Ignore /dev/wskbd0"
MatchDriver "kbd"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection

With this caveat:

"There are a few other options available over X.org's lifetime that
supposedly allow this to work, but I wasn't able to get them going. Of
course, the above will no longer accept keyboard input if you plug in
a USB keyboard until you change it back."

Thanks :)


<snip so that searches are more likely to pick up this mail directly>
> [ 29.451] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "/dev/wskbd" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
> [ 29.452] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [ 29.452] (EE) can't switch keyboard to raw mode. Enable support for it in the kernel
> or use for example:
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