Re: No patches any more - fake tty driver

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Otrdiena, 30. Augusts 2005 19:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > major is INPUT_MAJOR =3D=3D 13
> > minor is FTTY_MINOR_BASE =3D=3D 128
> > crw-rw---- =A01 root root 13, 128 aug 30 13:54
> > /dev/ftty0
> > owner, group, mode depends from hobbyhorse of system
> > operator
>
> Does the trick.
>
> But the keyboards are backwards. I.e. the one in front
> of monitor1 works on monitor2 and vv. The mice work
> correctly.

May be this wraper script helps?

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# Scans /proc/bus/input/devices for the given device physicaly location
# like isa0060.serio0.input0 . Please replace slash "/" with period "."
# Aivils Stoss
# GPL v2 or later applies.

PHYS=3Disa0060.serio1.input0

HANDLER=3Dftty

DEVICE=3D`sed -nre '
  /^I:/ {
    : gather
    N
    /\nH:/! b gather
    /'"$PHYS"'/ {
      s/.*('"$HANDLER"'[0-9]*).*/\\1/p
    }
  }
' < /proc/bus/input/devices`
echo $DEVICE
rm -f /dev/tty50
ln -s /dev/$DEVICE /dev/tty50
exec X $* vt50