Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:16:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: USB keyboards and XFree86-4 Message-ID: <XFMail.010813111627.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010811234845.E241@pir.net>
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On 12-Aug-01 Peter Radcliffe wrote: > I have an external USB keyboard to use when I take my laptop somewhere > for a while. > > I got it working following the information in ukbd(4) using > kbdcontrol to switch between the built in laptop keyboard and the > external USB keyboard, so it works ok. > > I've been looking at the XFree86 man pages and I'm wondering if it can > deal with two keyboard's input at the same time for just one display, > in the same way it can deal with multiple mice, but the Keyboard > InputDevice sections don't seem to like the Option "Device" ... > > Anyone done this already ? I haven't managed to get two keyboards to multiplex, no. Probably, the OS should do this instead of XFree86. It would fix a number of other problems as well, and remove the need to dink with kbdcontrol to get the USB keyboard to work. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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