HOWTO: Install basic G15Tools support for the Logitech G15

[Giblet5]

ok, thanks for the info Giblet5. Are your hubs/kvm self-powered? ie, do they have a power brick plugged into them? The g15 as been known to have problems when plugged into kvm switches (even on windows, apparently), and it needs a reasonable amount of power, which may account for some of the weirdness you're seeing

Current libg15 & g15daemon svn versions (as of yesterday) have basic support for automatically reconnecting the keyboard on disconnect - perhaps you might find that a better solution than the cron job.

Yeah. I have a 2A brick hanging off the KVM. The keyboard won't work at all without it. The hub and the LCD in the G15 appear to be the culprits. The G15, when you enable the hub, draws 400ma, and that isn't even powering the LCD or LEDs yet.

Wait til they release that color LCD model... Yikes.

[NZ-Wanderer]

I have a little problem, I had to reinstall Edgy and therefore everything else...
I followed all the steps I did last time, but when I type sudo g15daemon I get:

john@Kubuntu:~$ sudo g15daemon
Password:
An Error Occurred - 3 : ( Unable to configure the linux kernel UINPUT driver ) received
john@Kubuntu:~$

What have I done wrong please???

[mlampard]

NZ-Wanderer: have you loaded the uinput driver into the kernel? Try running "modprobe uinput" as root, then running g15daemon again.

[NZ-Wanderer]

Thank you, that worked perfectly - I now have the big clock again....

NZ-Wanderer: have you loaded the uinput driver into the kernel? Try running "modprobe uinput" as root, then running g15daemon again.

[gbesso]

Is it just me or does this not work with the 2.6.19.1 kernel?

[mlampard]

Versions of libg15 prior to 1.1.1 have problems with kernels later than 2.6.17 - are you using an earlier version? If you're running the latest version, please post the output of g15daemon -d to the g15daemon forums at sourceforge.

[KClaisse]

Well my system recently dumped and now I find myself reinstalling this again.

Much easier this time though.
I got the scripts to start at boot and g15composer and g15daemon are working just fine.

The only problem I have now, is the amarok script doesn't show the artist, album, or track name. I thought it was supposed to.

This is the script I used

EDIT:
Also, the script gives this error:

 Error: syntax error, unexpected T_NUMBER
Error: syntax error, unexpected T_NUMBER, expecting T_STRING or T_NEWLINE

[Aneurysm9]

Kclaisse:

That looks like the script that shipped with g15composer-3.0. it's been updated a bit since then. Pleas try the version from svn head here http://g15tools.svn.sourceforge.net/...l?revision=207. Also, on ubuntu you need to modify the font path by adding "truetype/" between "...fonts/" and "ttf-bitstream..." at line 23. That's probably why it's not showing the artist or album. Not sure about those errors, unfortunately g15composer's error handling isn't very informative right now, I'll look into making it give line numbers or something like that.

[Spatulas]

Hey, I compiled everything with ttf support (./configure --enable-ttf), but I still can't get ttf fonts to display. Can anyone help?

[Aneurysm9]

Do you get any error messages when you attempt to print with a ttf font?