Re: Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6?

[William Park]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:18:14PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >Plug PS/2 keyboard into PS/2 mouse port???  I didn't know you can do
> >that.
> 
> The two ports are the same hardware, which makes sense as they serve
> the same purpose - serial communication with a slow device.
> 
> The common case is one keyboard and one mouse, but two mice or two
> keyboards works just as well as long as the software expects it.
> Linux 2.6 have no problems with this.
> 
> You need the ruby patch to use the two keyboards independently, the
> standard kernel merges input from all attached keyboards into one
> console.
> 
> You may attach a lot more keyboards using usb keyboards.

Just tried it... works on 2.6, but not on 2.4.23.  Damn, I didn't have
to out and pay real money for USB keyboard/mouse. :-)

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx>
Linux solution for data management and processing. 
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