Re: Detecting a keyboard

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:57:32PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:26, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > 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 ?
> You shouldn't care. They will always be mixed together.

Unless you use the event output, of course, or have a multihead
patched kernel.

> > 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)
> USB keyboards don't support variable mappings. 

It is planned to have per-keyboard keymaps (keycode->keysym), though no
scancode->keycode maps for USB.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs