Re: Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6?

[Helge Hafting]

William Park wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:14:05PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
> > I run my home machine this way:
> > 2 standard keyboards, one connected to the keyboard port and
> > another connected to the ps2 mouse port.
>
>
> Plug PS/2 keyboard into PS/2 mouse port???  I didn't know you can do
> that.

The two ports are the same hardware, which makes sense as they
serve the same purpose - serial communication with a slow device.

The common case is one keyboard and one mouse, but two mice
or two keyboards works just as well as long as the software
expects it.  Linux 2.6 have no problems with this.

You need the ruby patch to use the two keyboards independently,
the standard kernel merges input from all attached keyboards into
one console.

You may attach a lot more keyboards using usb keyboards.

Helge Hafting


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