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edrex · 03-09-2020, 11:24 PM

I was able to replicate this. Thanks!

I used a USB OTG "Y" adapter instead of a hub, powering the keyboard with a separate power supply/battery to avoid extra load on the kindle battery.

Issues:

- the xorg.conf generated doesn't seem to allow hotplugging. need to look into this and try to make something generic. why should it need to be generated on each startup?
- need to package the input modules together with the xorg conf stuff

BTW, I'm planning to use this with the alpine chroot, hopefully running alpine's x or possibly wayland with a drm imx driver.

03-09-2020, 11:24 PM	#18
edrex Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2020 Device: Kindle PW3	I was able to replicate this. Thanks! I used a USB OTG "Y" adapter instead of a hub, powering the keyboard with a separate power supply/battery to avoid extra load on the kindle battery. Issues: - the xorg.conf generated doesn't seem to allow hotplugging. need to look into this and try to make something generic. why should it need to be generated on each startup? - need to package the input modules together with the xorg conf stuff BTW, I'm planning to use this with the alpine chroot, hopefully running alpine's x or possibly wayland with a drm imx driver.