htrefil / rkvm

Virtual KVM switch for Linux machines
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[Noob] Can't make it work #34

Open F-36 opened 1 year ago

F-36 commented 1 year ago

After running $ sudo rkvm-server /etc/rkvm/server.toml --shutdown-after 15

I get:

[INFO rkvm_server::server] Listening on 0.0.0.0:5258 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event22 at /dev/input/event23 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event8 at /dev/input/event24 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event7 at /dev/input/event25 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event6 at /dev/input/event26 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event5 at /dev/input/event27 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event4 at /dev/input/event28 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event3 at /dev/input/event29 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event2 at /dev/input/event30 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event1 at /dev/input/event31 [INFO rkvm_input::event_reader] Registered helper for /dev/input/event0 at /dev/input/event256 [INFO rkvm_input::event_writer] Registered virtual device at /dev/input/event257 [INFO rkvm_server] Shutting down as requested

Keyboard and mouse are unresponsive, nothing happens. I'm probably doing something wrong.

edit: Server is on a system with X11, Gnome 42.5 and Mutter.

htrefil commented 1 year ago

Perhaps X11 is not configured to read from rkvm's virtual devices. Can you please confirm that?

F-36 commented 1 year ago

How can I check that?

htrefil commented 1 year ago

Please install and run evtest and check if it's reporting any events after you run rkvm-server.