Re: Detecting a keyboard

[Alastair M. <mck...@de...>]

Thanks.
I'm working on the new debian-installer. I'm looking at the case of
having  multiple potential keyboards in a computer, eg. USB & PS/2.
I want to be able to tell, if possible, what keyboards are attached
(possible in the USB case), and failing that (eg in the PS2 case)
if there is a keyboard attached; so that if, eg we spot a keyboard on
the USB port, we configure that, but is there also a keyboard on the
PS/2 port ?

We may need different keymaps on the different keyboards (indeed, this
might be essential ; one of the few reasons a normal user might have
multiple keyboards is to have different types)


Alastair


On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 04:10, Brad Hards wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > I am trying to detect, under Linux (2.4 or 2.5) if a keyboard is
> > _present_ (attached to a PS/2 or other connector). (Similarly, same ges
> > for any non-PC architecture. I know about USB, but PPC? Sparc?
> > Acorn/Amiga/Atari?)
> Easy on 2.5, you could just parse the /proc/bus/input/devices list. Or do=
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> What are you actually trying to accomplish?
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