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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:46:01 -0500
From:      Eric I.Arnoth <earnoth@home.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ps/2 port on laptops and cuecat
Message-ID:  <20011203015351.DRZP29578.femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>

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All:

I'm trying to get a cuecat working, and tried the cuecat software in the 
ports tree, but had a problem.  Xcuecat is supposed to take input from STDIN, 
but my cuecat was not sending any input to STDIN from the ps/2 port on my HP 
Pavillion n6395.  The port maintainer told me that on a desktop computer, the 
cuecat would send to STDIN because it would be plugged in serial 
(connectivity means, not the serial port type :) with the keyboard through 
the ps/2 port.

What can I do on my laptop, where the keyboard is not in the ps/2 "chain"?  
What device is a ps/2 port?  I imagine I could just do a "cuecat < cat 
/dev/ps2_device_name", perhaps.  Would that work?  If so, what is 
ps2_device_name?  dmesg gives me no clues.  :-(


-Eric I. Arnoth

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