[maemo-developers] capturing key presses on N770

[From: Frank Banul]

Does http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2006/becomeroot/ do the trick?

Frank

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Vinod Nanjaiah <Vinod_Nanjaiah at mindtree.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
> I cross compiled and ran evkey.c but got an error.
>
> $> ./evkey -d /dev/input/event0
> evdev open: permission denied
>
> I guess I have to run this as root.
> But, I could not find a .deb file for rootsh/becomeroot.
> I could not find the flasher.exe also for N770 to enable root.
> Please help.
>
> I also tried installing powerlaunch. But failed to find
> the dependencies for it - libglade2.
> Is there any single repository from which I can download
> the required .deb files for N770.
>
> Thank you,
> Vinod
>
>
> From: Frantisek Dufka [dufkaf at seznam.cz]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:07 PM
> To: Vinod Nanjaiah
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.orgg
> Subject: Re: capturing key presses on N770
>
> Vinod Nanjaiah wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to capture key presses of the Hard keys (Up, Down, Left,
> > Right, Home, etc) on Nokia N770.
> > Is it possible to do so using a simple c program or shell script?
>
> Not sure what is the scenario you want to use it for. For low level
> access you can use kernel input subsystem directly
>
> see e.g. evkey.c [1] and its usage in bootmenu.sh [2]. Just beware that
> different devices have different device names and key events still go to
> the rest of the system.
>
> For playing nice with the system using powerlaunch [3] is indeed better.
> I am not aware of 770 version (the author [4] has/had N800) but the
> source is here [4]. Maybe it could build fine at least in OS2007 hacker
> edition.
>
> Frantisek
>
> 1.
>
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/tags/bootmenu_0_1/?root=bootmenu
> 2.
>
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/bootmenu/files/?root=bootmenu
>
> 3. http://powerlaunch.garage.maemo.org/
>
> 4. http://austinche.name/maemo/index.html
> 5.
>
> http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/source/p/powerlaunch/
>
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