From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 17:49:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1214716A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:49:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C379343D48 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:49:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0LHo1dw029510; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:50:01 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j0LHo0MY029503; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:50:00 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:50:00 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Bram Van Steenlandt Message-ID: <20050121175000.GA28384@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <41F0CF6D.6010907@no-wackos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F0CF6D.6010907@no-wackos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two keyboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:49:54 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:46:21AM +0100, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: > Hi >=20 > For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards=20 > (actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)). >=20 > I've read a previous post and there it was supposed that one should=20 > write a driver to accomplish this. > I am not a C programmer and know far to little from FreeBSD to=20 > accomplish this. >=20 > So I ask you, Isn't there a much easier way (other operating systems=20 > seem to have no problem with this)? Other OSes have the intrastructure to support multiple keyboards. We don't have one piece of that, the many to one keyboard mux. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8UDIXY6L6fI4GtQRAlbAAJoCP8Zv8TlhrkAsTuuQc8g7VxiTEgCeMIM4 p1GtOR7JFXz8Vbw1W9wJtSg= =rl/l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--