[Oberon] Oberon an Raspberry Pi: no keyboard, no mouse (was: Re: Re (2): suggestions for documentation.)

[eas lab]

Thanks for your effort.
   apt-get install libudev-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev
failed unless <system update> first. That's debian 'policy'?!

Immeditely once rPi:V5 was usable, I started to create a file: "Log",
which was re-accessible on further re-boots.
You feel half-crippled, not able to `OpenFile` immediately by a single
klux. Doesn't NW know about that update/refinement?
There seemed to be no facility to write to the outside world, to save my
logged effort [that's also why I didn't spend/lose extra time with A2/blue*].

Now the 'display is lost' [only the original V5-frame shows on the HDMI-WIDE
screen, without any <track-lines> nor text, mouse-cursor].
And my logging effort is hidden/lost, in some, perhaps binary, file.

The emulator would be interesting for the RISC project, but for a rPi
tool, V5 MUST be able to react with the linux environment.

Eg. LEO can not only read/write FAT/*linux files, but can EXECUTE linux.
So you can use the mass of *nix utilities, on ETHO derived text-files.
Eg. remove all ">" | Replace all EndOfLine with <space>
 | Format 'it' by line-wrapping before N-char-len | prepend ">>" to each line;
cleans-up and converts a "cite" into a double-cite.

Also, I wanted to  ReplaceAll "<--*" in a text, but *nix regular-expressions
is a complex-dog compared to ETHO's EBNF format, so you can just use
LEO's !LIVE/Visual! Find & ReplaceAll. So you can swap back-and-forth between
LEO & linux, [from LEO inside linux] to use which ever is better.
Of course you must be able to switch-out-of LEO to linux and back-into LEO.

rPi:V5 doesn't seem to be able to do this.

V4 can also Read/Write Aos and Linux files.

== Chris Glur.


On 4/13/14, Ulrich Hoffmann <uho at xlerb.de> wrote:
> On 2014-04-10 at 12:13 pm eas lab wrote:
>
>> Yes the CPU and display are nice.
>> But what about the USB: keybrd & mouse?
>>
>> == Chris Glur.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I further investigated in the no keyboard, no mouse problem
> on Raspberry Pi.
>
> When compiling SDL2 (I used version 2.0.3 [1]) on Raspberry Pi,
> please make sure (as explained in SDL2's README-rasperrypi.txt)
> that you
>
> 1) meet the Build Dependencies for SDL2 on Raspberry Pi:
>
> 		sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev
>
> 2) the pi user (or the user you intend to run SDL2 apps with) is member
> 	of the input group
>
> 		sudo usermod -aG input `whoami`
>
> 	It seems like logging out and logging in is required for the group
> 	membership to become active. At least it was for me.
>
> Only then start building SLD2 (in SDL2's directory):
>
> 		./configure; make; sudo make install
>
> Running oberon-risc-emu should have working mouse and keyboard then.
>
> On one system I tried to use SLD2 without meeting the Build
> Dependencies ( 1) above): SDL2 compiles fine but keyboard and mouse
> will not work with oberon-risc-emu. Only establishing 1), removing the
> SDL2 directory, re-unpacking SDL2 and compiling from scratch helped.
> A mere rerun of configure; make; sudo make install did not succeed.
>
> Let us know if this works for you.
>
> Regards,
> 		Ulrich Hoffmann
>
> [1] http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.3.tar.gz