ADB Keyboard woes

SDL Development
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Hey there -

I’ve compiled and installed SDL from the latest tarball. So I went to try a
couple of test programmes. testime seemed to work fine, then I go on to
testkeys.

It reports an error along these lines (sorry, not at my *nix box @tm):

Unable to initialise SDL (Keyboard could no be found)

Well, X can find my keyboard, why can’t SDL? Any compile-time options I need
to set?

Here’s my Spec:

LinuxPPC 2000
Motorola Starmax 3000/200
18 MB RAM
ADB Keyboard (could this be the problem?)

Thanks for any replies,

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Well, X can find my keyboard, why can’t SDL? Any compile-time options I need
to set?

What are the permissions for the keyboard, mouse, and console devices?
The X server runs as root, so can open all of these, while your program
may not have access to them.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

The X server runs as root, so can open all of these, while your program
may not have access to them.

Nope, still doesn’t work even after running w/ root.

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