Hello dear Kernel-Developers,
I've the problem that I've connected two keyboards
(one via usb and one via ps/2) to my machine and I want to have
different keyboard layout on it.
While I was trying to find out what would be the best way to do that,
I was somehow surprised that keyboards are not presented via
a device file to userspace.
My questions are:
- Is there a reason not to have devices for keyboards?
- If I would implement it into a recent kernel, would it have any chance
getting into mainline?
I know this would have some consequences for user space, at least those:
- x11 (x.org/xfree) would have to modify their input device section for Linux
for keyboards
- loadkeys would have to be patched so one could specify which keyboard
to change the layout for
- kde/gnome would have to be changed in the manner that they support more
than one keyboard
Nico
P.S.: Please cc me.
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On Saturday 10 December 2005 03:57, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello dear Kernel-Developers,
>
> I've the problem that I've connected two keyboards
> (one via usb and one via ps/2) to my machine and I want to have
> different keyboard layout on it.
>
> While I was trying to find out what would be the best way to do that,
> I was somehow surprised that keyboards are not presented via
> a device file to userspace.
>
They are. You need to use event input interface. All input devices can
be accessed via /dev/input/eventX device nodes.
> My questions are:
>
> - Is there a reason not to have devices for keyboards?
> - If I would implement it into a recent kernel, would it have any chance
> getting into mainline?
>
> I know this would have some consequences for user space, at least those:
>
> - x11 (x.org/xfree) would have to modify their input device section for Linux
> for keyboards
> - loadkeys would have to be patched so one could specify which keyboard
> to change the layout for
> - kde/gnome would have to be changed in the manner that they support more
> than one keyboard
>
> Nico
>
> P.S.: Please cc me.
>
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Dmitry