Re: 2 PS/2 keyboards possible!

[Friedrich W. H. K. <Fri...@ko...>]

Am Donnerstag 10 November 2005 12:30, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> --- "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau"
> <Fri...@ko...> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Is it really possible to connect a PS/2 keyboard to
> > the port usually given to
> > a PS/2 mouse?
>
> Since no keyboard advances are possible since IBM made
> their Model M keyboard, having reached perfection, I
> have 2 of them from 1989 plugged into the keyboard
> outlet and into the mouse outlet.

Great. Thank you all for your answers, that served as proof at least=20
heuristically :P

So having my fears of damaging something blown away I tried it out and, nic=
e,=20
am seeing it working here, too. :)

> Then 2 optical mice into 2 USB ports.
>
> This works with either Ruby or Faketty. But Faketty
> beats Ruby hands down because textmode is so much
> better on the AGP screen.

Having now succeded in patching the SUSE 10.0's xorg rpms with the=20
isolate-device patch and having cross compiled the faketty input handler (i=
s=20
at least insmod'able at the target) I am right now setting up the environme=
nt=20
(reading, typing) and, well, let's see...

Regards
=46riedrich