[maemo-users] USB keyboard on n800?

[From: Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:49:08 +0100, Matt Emson wrote:

> This should get you started...
> 
> Get what the mode is currently set:
> cat /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode)
> 
> Turn off the onscreen kbd:
> gconftool-2 -t bool -s /system/osso/af/keyboard-attached true
> 
> Turn on the onscreen kbd - this is important as is sometimes doesn't
> happen -though it should: gconftool-2 -t bool -s
> /system/osso/af/keyboard-attached false
> 
> Set host mode:
> echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode

Thus worked, and it recognized that I had plugged in a USB device.  
Unfortunately, it indicated this by popping up a window saying "USB 
device not supported".

This message goes away after a second or two.  If I keep my keyboard 
plugged in and wait a little while, it pops up, "Unable to connect, no 
file system available".  Well, it would surprise me if it thought my 
keyboard had a file system.

(Although actually, it does have a file system.  It remembers what you've 
typed in while disconnected, so it can type it in on autopilot when it is 
connected later.  But I don't think it makes it available as a file 
system over the USB port.

On my desktop Debian machine, it's recognized as an ordinary USB 
keyboard.  So evidently, there's something else that has to be done.

- hendrik