Date: 07 Nov 2003 07:25:13 -0800 From: Preston Crawford <me@prestoncrawford.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alphasmart on FreeBSD? Good book? Message-ID: <1068218713.4093.2.camel@serpentor.cobrala> In-Reply-To: <20031106190608.3641.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031106190608.3641.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thanks for all the help everyone. So far so good. Okay, so I did my install and I'm coming across a few issues. I got GDM running and it looks really nice. It runs really fast. I always forget about then when I install FreeBSD, how fast it is. At least, it seems faster compared to SuSE. Now I back to this word processor I use. Since it essentially connects to your computer like a USB keyboard, it works really easily, for the most part. Under Linux I plugged it in, it was recognized and I could use it. The main thing you do with it is hit a "send" button that basically dumps everything in the current file you're working on into whatever editor you have open. Works great. Under FreeBSD I had to use kbdcontrol to switch control to the keyboard, then back to the PS/2 keyboard. This isn't a deal-killer by any stretch, but isn't there a way to use both at once and not have to switch from one to the other? Or maybe even some way to get a hotplug script of some kind to fire when I plug it in, from which I can make the call to switch them? Preston
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