Re: question about handling of multiple keyboards

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

On Sv=E7tdiena, 21. Maijs 2006 20:33, Hermann Gausterer wrote:
> hi
>
> i hope, i am here on the right list for this
> (maybe linux-input is better suited ..)
>
> according to http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/, it is possible
> to "it is possible to use a keyboard without the console system"
> and to "We can add or remove ... keyboards to create new desktop VTs."
>
> i want to connect a second (usb)keyboard to one specific VT and
> start an application there; i need no output on screen, but
> inputs should be only sendable with the second keyboard

Running solution is this one:
http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/files/faketty-0.05.tar.bz2
it have small readme. It support RAW keyboard - protocol used by X.
Linux XLATE keyboard is not supported.

Another big kernel patch:
http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/?proj_id=3Druby

> i know i can get the scancodes with /dev/input/eventX, but
> that are not directly usable (without translation ..)
>
> is there additional documentation about all the new features
> and the usage from them, that are discribed at
> http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ ?

This have not maintainer. Read docs in page noticed above and follow
links.

Aivils