Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

From: Pavel Roskin (proski@gnu.org)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 23:50:59 EST


Hi, James!

> So as you can see even USB keyboards depend on pc_keyb.c. So their is
> no way around this.

Perhaps redefining kbd_read_input() will help. It's cruel, I know :-)

> You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I
> have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't
> have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS
> get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As you can it is very easy to
> multiplex many keyboards with the above design. I have had 4 different
> keyboards hooked up to my system and functioning at the same time. We
> even got a Sun keyboard to work on a intel box :-)

That's what we like Linux for. It doesn't get confused when everything
else does :-)

Thanks for your very interesting reply.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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