From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 01:27:31 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 4DCAC16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:27:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039FA43D2F for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:27:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62387A403; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:27:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41F1AC02.5060704@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:27:30 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <41F0CF6D.6010907@no-wackos.com> <20050121175000.GA28384@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050121175000.GA28384@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Bram Van Steenlandt 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: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:27:31 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: >On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:46:21AM +0100, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: > > >>Hi >> >>For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards >>(actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)). >> >>I've read a previous post and there it was supposed that one should >>write a driver to accomplish this. >>I am not a C programmer and know far to little from FreeBSD to >>accomplish this. >> >>So I ask you, Isn't there a much easier way (other operating systems >>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. > But that's probably not what he wants.. He probably doesn't want data from the scanner (bar code?) intermixed randomly with the data from the keyboard.. He just needs to read the device separatly. > >-- Brooks > > >