From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 19:08:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20518 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:08:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA20509 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0yHK51-0007bn-00; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:08:47 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id UAA15837; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:08:52 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199803240308.UAA15837@harmony.village.org> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Cc: Tom , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:31:37 PST." References: Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:08:52 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Simon Shapiro writes: : What our correspondent intends to say is RS-232C (?) keyboard. PC : keyboards are TTL level only. OK. I wasn't precise enough. I have a keyboard that generates RS-232C or RS-423 level signals that I'd like to connect to a PC-like thing (most people call them laptops, mine is a Libretto 50CT) that is currently running FreeBSD. : Except that he probably would like to have stdout and stderr (and : console?) still go to the VGA board. Yup. I want to present the same interface to the kernel that the current PC keyboard interface so it would work with things like X as well (this may require a lot of translation on my part, which is cool). There is also a cool chording keyboard that I'd like to give a go at running as my system keyboard, but that one is also a RS-232 device.... : Why would anyone want that, is a good question. A NEW PC KB is $15. It is a laptop machine that doesn't have a keyboard port. I have a small, light weight serial (aka RS323) keyboard (from a newton) that I'd like to connect to its serial port. I do ahve a port replicator which has a keyboard interface, but that is too bulky and fragile to carry with me. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message