From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 13 11:17: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0C437B40B for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA14836; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:16:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010811234845.E241@pir.net> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:16:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Peter Radcliffe Subject: RE: USB keyboards and XFree86-4 Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12-Aug-01 Peter Radcliffe wrote: > I have an external USB keyboard to use when I take my laptop somewhere > for a while. > > I got it working following the information in ukbd(4) using > kbdcontrol to switch between the built in laptop keyboard and the > external USB keyboard, so it works ok. > > I've been looking at the XFree86 man pages and I'm wondering if it can > deal with two keyboard's input at the same time for just one display, > in the same way it can deal with multiple mice, but the Keyboard > InputDevice sections don't seem to like the Option "Device" ... > > Anyone done this already ? I haven't managed to get two keyboards to multiplex, no. Probably, the OS should do this instead of XFree86. It would fix a number of other problems as well, and remove the need to dink with kbdcontrol to get the USB keyboard to work. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message