Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:52:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Q: Howto access the keyboard in a linux system without a graphics card ? |
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Its is easy if your keyboard driver is based on the input api. Just use the /dev/input/event interface.
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Kai-Boris Schad wrote:
> Hi ! > > I'm trying to set up a small embedded system for gps receiving with a linux > system. I want to have the system working without a graphics card - wich > works well. The Problem I have at the moment is to access the keyboard > without a graphics card, because the console driver does not start then ( > Also a redirect doesn't work then :-( ) > Is there a way to access the keyboard in this case by a user program ? > The system recognises the keyboard ( I think Kernel and init) and reacts if > ctrl-alt-del is pressed. > > Thanks for your help ! > > Kai > > -- > Kai-Boris Schad > University of Ulm, Germany > Dept. of Electron Devices and Circuits > Integrated Circuits in Communications > Albert Einstein Allee 45 > 89069 ULM > > http://www.uni-ulm.de/icic > email:kschad@ebs.e-technik.uni-ulm.de > phone +49/731/50-31581 fax +49/731/50-31599 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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