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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:26:58 +0000
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: kbdmux disabled --> no useable keyboard?!
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:30:24 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> > What
> >   should I do to be able to use two keyboards (in X) independently,
> >   and still be able to use one in the console.
> 
> "Fortunately", X has its own automagic input device detection, which
> will probably shoot you in the foot. :-)

	Some fiddling in xorg.conf will be required to stop using the auto
detect devices and use explicitly configured ones. I'm not sure if the
keyboard driver accepts a Device parameter (it seems to lack a man page)
otherwise the old kbd driver should do the job.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>