From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 23 18:33:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15247 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:33:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15237 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:32:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20026; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:02:37 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA17863; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:02:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980324130235.21267@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:02:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Tom Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 06:31:37PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (following up to -chat) On Mon, 23 March 1998 at 18:31:37 -0800, Simon Shapiro wrote: > On 24-Mar-98 Tom wrote: >> >> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Warner Losh wrote: >> >>> >>> Looking at syscons.c, pcvt/* and sio.c makes me think that this won't >>> be easy or simple to do, but that it is possible to do it with enough >>> hacking.... >> >> Well, since it is serial, working with the serial console code is >> probably closest. > > Except that he probably would like to have stdout and stderr (and > console?) still go to the VGA board. > > Why would anyone want that, is a good question. A NEW PC KB is $15. Maybe he can touch-type. That's a concept that the designers of the PC keyboards don't seem to have considered. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message