couple of questions

[kn4ppst3r]

1) How do I get a terminal once booted? I have tried "ctrl + alt + f2" with no luck, nothing happens. In the /etc/inittab it appears that terminals 1 is auto login for sagetv and 2-6 should be un logged in terminals.

2) My wireless usb keyboard doesn't work. I double checked the kernel and it looks like usb support is for HID in enabled. Any clues on how to get it to work?

3) Is it possible to get my leadtek tv2000xp expert to work with sagetv? I know that I can get tuner to work perfectly under gentoo. But doesn't appear to be supported on the default by sagetv. My pvr250 works fine but I would like to get multiple tuners working.

[churth]

I'd backup your .bash_profile, then comment out the line where it says startx. This will allow you to get to your terminals (but, sagetv won't start).

Or, you could rewrite your .bash_profile to allow you to either go into sagetv, or shell.

Do you see your keyboard in dmesg?

I doubt the leadtek card will work. SageTV for linux uses IVTV, and I don't see it listed as a compatable card for ivtv.

[will1105]

Originally Posted by kn4ppst3r

1) How do I get a terminal once booted? I have tried "ctrl + alt + f2" with no luck, nothing happens. In the /etc/inittab it appears that terminals 1 is auto login for sagetv and 2-6 should be un logged in terminals. .

If your SageTV server is on a network, just ssh into the SageTV PC from another PC on the network. Or if you use WinDOZE dl putty and use that to ssh to your SAGETV PC.

[kn4ppst3r]

dmesg for wireless keyboard and mouse:

usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
input: GlobLink INC TW GlobLink RF USB 88_Key as /class/input/input5
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [GlobLink INC TW GlobLink RF USB 88_Key ] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2
input: GlobLink INC TW GlobLink RF USB 88_Key as /class/input/input6
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [GlobLink INC TW GlobLink RF USB 88_Key ] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2

I'm used to my mouse and keyboard showing up under "/dev/inputs" Any easy way to get keyboard to work?

As for wanting a terminal I wanted to be able to start a 2nd x session so I could also be able browse the internet in my living room. I'm going to disable the auto login to see if that will help.

[Narflex]

Alt+F2 works for me to bring up a secondary console.

[kn4ppst3r]

Atl + F2 doesn't bring up a 2nd terminal for me...

If sagetv is started I can't get to any other terminals.

[SHS]

Best to use PS/2 keyboard
atl+f2 login then ctrl+c

[AboveUnrefined]

Why is Alt + F2 working for some and not others? It's not working for me either and I am using a PS/2 keyboard....

[kn4ppst3r]

I'm using a ps/2 keyboard right now and alt + f2 doesn't do anything.

Is there an easy way to move sagetv to an existing gentoo install?

[kn4ppst3r]

after some poking around I found the line

Option "DontVTSwitch"

and comented it out so I could switch to a virtual terminal and start fluxbox up on another terminal.


Got the wireless keyboard/trackball to work properly by hitting num lock twice on a standard keyboard. Anyone know of an easy way to run a script at startup to do this with a keyboard plugged in?

[AboveUnrefined]

That's awesome!

Would something like this http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-a...-HOWTO-15.html do what you're asking?

[kn4ppst3r]

hmmm I'll have to play around with that in the morning. Think that is what I was looking for.

might try throwing something like that in my .xinitrc file since X auto loads on boot and I won't need to play around with startup scripts.

[kn4ppst3r]

after some more poking around I found that there is a "numlock" script that turns on or off the numlock. I created a copy of the script and edited it to turn on and then of the numlock at time of boot. Now I'm no longer chained to the computer by mouse and keyboard.