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From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>
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Subject: Multiple keyboards for syscons?
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I am trying to find a way to use two keyboards with syscons, something
like:

mkfifo /tmp/mykbds
cat /dev/kbd1 >/tmp/mykbds &
cat /dev/kbd2 >/tmp/mykbds &
kbdcontrol -k /tmp/mykbds </dev/console

(The above doesn't work 'kbdcontrol: unable to obtain keyboard information: 
Operation not supported' )

Is there some way to do this?