Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 May 2001 00:50:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Pavel Roskin <> | Subject | Re: AT keyboard optional on i386? |
| |
Hi, James!
> So as you can see even USB keyboards depend on pc_keyb.c. So their is > no way around this.
Perhaps redefining kbd_read_input() will help. It's cruel, I know :-)
> You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I > have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't > have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS > get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As you can it is very easy to > multiplex many keyboards with the above design. I have had 4 different > keyboards hooked up to my system and functioning at the same time. We > even got a Sun keyboard to work on a intel box :-)
That's what we like Linux for. It doesn't get confused when everything else does :-)
Thanks for your very interesting reply.
-- Regards, Pavel Roskin
- 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/
| |