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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote:

> On Dec 07, Mathew Kanner wrote:
> > 	The way I see it, FreeBSD needs serious hacking to have
> > multiple concurrent keyboards support without serious hacking.
> 
> 	ugh, you know what I mean. 

With mouse support, we have a layer of indirection with moused that
combines input from various mouse devices into a single event stream via
/dev/sysmouse.  While I don't think we want a keyboard daemon at this
point, we might well need to add a similar abstraction in the kernel so
that different keyboard sources can be combined.  Just "plugging in" a USB
mouse and having it "just work" is extremely beneficial, and I agree we
need to be able to support the same with keyboards.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research