From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 19:47:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FD116A4DD for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:47:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net (mailgate1b.savvis.net [216.91.182.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C35043D49 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:47:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0032F3BE3D; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:47:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate1b.savvis.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04305-01-16; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:47:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.12.163.251] (unknown [10.12.163.251]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798113BE2D; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:47:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44BBC130.5030709@savvis.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:56:16 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060603) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eol1@yahoo.com References: <20060715162100.96524.qmail@web51907.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060715162100.96524.qmail@web51907.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at savvis.net Cc: Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: External USB Numpad X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:47:50 -0000 Peter Thoenen wrote: > Actually I have it nearly working. It works partially but not as I > intend. The problem is it now acts as an extension of my laptop > keyboard. Meaning when I hit numlock on the external usb numpad the > numpad on my actual AT laptop keyboard activates. As you know, most > laptops have a numpad like function under the 789,uio,jkl rows meaning > I can't type anymore while using the numberpad in numlock. This is not > the behavior I am looking for. Need full keyboard functionality AND > numlock external keyboard functionality (which is why I bought it). > Any ideas how to configure this? you cant. current kbdmux(4) implementation makes *all* keyboards/keypads identical. from kbdmux(4) man page === CAVEATS The kbdmux keyboard driver switches all slave keyboards into K_RAW mode. Thus all slave keyboards attached to the kbdmux keyboard share the same state. The kbdmux keyboard is logically equivalent to one keyboard with lots of duplicated keys. === thanks, max