Re: IBM Rapid Access Keyboard

From: James A Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 16:46:45 EST


On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Then have a daemon which reads the keyboard input and feeds it to (a) a
> > pty, (b) your other processes. However, perhaps /dev/input really is
> > the thing to do.

Yeap.
 
> Once you get to multiple keyboards it all starts to look at lot saner this way.
> The console code also needs work to support multiple-console-user setups as
> does userspace (pam console helper stuff)

Already have something on vgacon and mdacon. I still haven't figured out
how to handle pm_register* yet for multihead. Will I have to handle in a
special way compared to how it is handled now? As for pam console stuff I
need patches :-) What other userland apps will be effected by this change?

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