From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 01:03:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F36316A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:03:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E83E43D49 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:03:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from RabbitsDen ([70.18.160.160]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IIK00C1SDLNC5N9@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:03:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <863br87fhe.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> To: Arne Schwabe Message-id: <1130461371.1345.2.camel@RabbitsDen> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-5 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <42BAFE37.4080504@savvis.net> <863br87fhe.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request for comments: kbdmux(4) (long) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:03:24 -0000 X-Original-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:02:51 -0400 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:03:24 -0000 On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 02:42 +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote: > Maksim Yevmenkin writes: > > > > > > - kbdmux model: kbdmux(4) is "super-keyboard" driver that consumes input > > (raw scancodes) from slave keyboards. the side effect is that _all_ > > keyboards attached to the kbdmux share the _same_ state. basically user > > can press ctrl on one keyboard and "C" on another keyboard and it still > > will work. is that good enough? > > > > One example where really don't want that behavior is a notebook with a > extra "numlook keyboard" basically a simple usb keyboard only with the > num block. Some keybord map the num block to letter keys if in num > mode. > > Arne > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Actually, previous version of the mux switched keypad into numeric mode and left main keyboard on the laptop in its original state. I did not get a chance to try new one yet. FWIW, -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)