Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:50:00 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Bram Van Steenlandt <brampie@no-wackos.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two keyboards Message-ID: <20050121175000.GA28384@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <41F0CF6D.6010907@no-wackos.com> References: <41F0CF6D.6010907@no-wackos.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. -- Brooks -- 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8UDIXY6L6fI4GtQRAlbAAJoCP8Zv8TlhrkAsTuuQc8g7VxiTEgCeMIM4 p1GtOR7JFXz8Vbw1W9wJtSg= =rl/l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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