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  Startup / launcher / no-logging / no-keyboard "Absalom K." <absalom@emet.tnk> - 2013-06-18 08:36 +0000
    Re: Startup / launcher / no-logging / no-keyboard Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2013-06-18 15:06 +0200
      Re: Startup / launcher / no-logging / no-keyboard The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-18 14:54 +0100
    Re: Startup / launcher / no-logging / no-keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-06-18 12:17 -0400

#8502 — Startup / launcher / no-logging / no-keyboard

Hi,

I want to make a small retro-gaming station for my children with
a Raspberry Pi. I would be happy to get some ideas concerning the
following issues:

  a) auto-loggin, no username, no password;
     is it possible to directly access the shell without the logging step?
  b) the startup script should launch a menu (either some dialog/ncurses
     or some framebuffer environment, rather no X) for selecting games (with
     of course a "return to the shell" option) ;
  c) I would like the menu to be fully driven from a joystick; I have never
     used a joystick before (as a programmer); is it easy to handle such
     a device from python (for instance)?

It's OK if I need to code a little for building a menu, but I am pretty
sure this kind of things already exist. Regards,

fu2 comp.os.linux.misc

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#8503

Absalom K. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to make a small retro-gaming station for my children with
> a Raspberry Pi. I would be happy to get some ideas concerning the
> following issues:
>
>    a) auto-loggin, no username, no password;
>       is it possible to directly access the shell without the logging step?
if(logging=log-in?) then Yes
man inittab
>    b) the startup script should launch a menu (either some dialog/ncurses
>       or some framebuffer environment, rather no X) for selecting games (with
>       of course a "return to the shell" option) ;
man whiptail
package whiptail needs to be installed...
there are others like this, too..
>    c) I would like the menu to be fully driven from a joystick; I have never
>       used a joystick before (as a programmer); is it easy to handle such
>       a device from python (for instance)?
>
Sorry, I don't know about that...
> It's OK if I need to code a little for building a menu, but I am pretty
> sure this kind of things already exist. Regards,
>
> fu2 comp.os.linux.misc

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#8504

On 18/06/13 14:06, Johann Klammer wrote:
> Absalom K. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to make a small retro-gaming station for my children with
>> a Raspberry Pi. I would be happy to get some ideas concerning the
>> following issues:
>>
>>    a) auto-loggin, no username, no password;
>>       is it possible to directly access the shell without the logging 
>> step?
> if(logging=log-in?) then Yes
> man inittab
>>    b) the startup script should launch a menu (either some 
>> dialog/ncurses
>>       or some framebuffer environment, rather no X) for selecting 
>> games (with
>>       of course a "return to the shell" option) ;
> man whiptail
> package whiptail needs to be installed...
> there are others like this, too..
>>    c) I would like the menu to be fully driven from a joystick; I 
>> have never
>>       used a joystick before (as a programmer); is it easy to handle 
>> such
>>       a device from python (for instance)?
>>
> Sorry, I don't know about that...

I think that some joysticks would work OK.  I.e drivers may well exist 
in the kernel so they present themselves as /dev/joystick or whatever :-)

If not you are in trouble..unless you care to write your own driver.

But these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Extreme-Pro-Precision-Fightstick/dp/B00CJ5FPTA/ref=dp_ob_title_vg#productDetails

would seem to be pure USB  that probably generate mouse/keyboard type 
events, and whilst picking up these is not an insuperable issue, its is 
not trivial either.

But again no worse than picking up anything else when writing an X 
window program using a standard toolkit like GTK

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/2.22/x2431.html




>> It's OK if I need to code a little for building a menu, but I am pretty
>> sure this kind of things already exist. Regards,
>>
>> fu2 comp.os.linux.misc
>


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#8505

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Absalom K. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to make a small retro-gaming station for my children with
> a Raspberry Pi. I would be happy to get some ideas concerning the
> following issues:
>
DOn't forget there is comp.sys.raspberry-pi that should be covering this.
Yes, your questions aren't really pi specific, but some of the first 
whining in the new newsgroup was about running without a keyboard.

    Michael

>  a) auto-loggin, no username, no password;
>     is it possible to directly access the shell without the logging step?
>  b) the startup script should launch a menu (either some dialog/ncurses
>     or some framebuffer environment, rather no X) for selecting games (with
>     of course a "return to the shell" option) ;
>  c) I would like the menu to be fully driven from a joystick; I have never
>     used a joystick before (as a programmer); is it easy to handle such
>     a device from python (for instance)?
>
> It's OK if I need to code a little for building a menu, but I am pretty
> sure this kind of things already exist. Regards,
>
> fu2 comp.os.linux.misc
>

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