Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:08:52 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Message-ID: <199803240308.UAA15837@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:31:37 PST." <XFMail.980323183137.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> References: <XFMail.980323183137.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <XFMail.980323183137.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Simon Shapiro writes: : What our correspondent intends to say is RS-232C (?) keyboard. PC : keyboards are TTL level only. OK. I wasn't precise enough. I have a keyboard that generates RS-232C or RS-423 level signals that I'd like to connect to a PC-like thing (most people call them laptops, mine is a Libretto 50CT) that is currently running FreeBSD. : Except that he probably would like to have stdout and stderr (and : console?) still go to the VGA board. Yup. I want to present the same interface to the kernel that the current PC keyboard interface so it would work with things like X as well (this may require a lot of translation on my part, which is cool). There is also a cool chording keyboard that I'd like to give a go at running as my system keyboard, but that one is also a RS-232 device.... : Why would anyone want that, is a good question. A NEW PC KB is $15. It is a laptop machine that doesn't have a keyboard port. I have a small, light weight serial (aka RS323) keyboard (from a newton) that I'd like to connect to its serial port. I do ahve a port replicator which has a keyboard interface, but that is too bulky and fragile to carry with me. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199803240308.UAA15837>