From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 22 1:21:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA3515973 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 01:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elpc36.jrc.it (elpc36.jrc.it [139.191.71.36]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id KAA28004; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:18:12 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:18:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elpc36.jrc.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, Freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB keyboard attach function? In-Reply-To: <199904220414.AAA21542@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've heard of no one trying, but I (we!) would love to hear whether you get this to work. There is not problem is using two keyboards at the same time, but I am not sure whether X can already handle more than one keyboard attached to a system. I don't think that you can specify the keyboard /dev/ entry int he X configuration. Try looking at the XFree pages. I remember someone asking me whether this would be possible soon in FreeBSD because they were working on support for multiple keyboards. Nick On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Viren R. Shah once stated: > > =Amancio and Nick helped me get my system with only a USB keyboard and > =USB mouse up and running. Right now I'm pretty happy with the way it is > =now. My only concern is that the FreeBSD bootloader does not appear to > =see keystrokes from the USB keyboard (which kinda makes it difficult to > =switch OSes on an USB only system). > > Provided I configure two video cards not to conflict, can I use > two USB keyboard and two USB mice (or one USB and one usual of > each) and run two independent X-servers? Two instances of sc? > > Thanks! > > -mi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message