Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 12:45:02PM +0200, Sau Dan Lee wrote:

> For more imaginative innovations.
> 
> e.g. try my keyboard driver across 2 machines (using the SERIO_USERDEV
> patch from Tuukka Toivonen and me):
> 
>     master$ cat /dev/misc/isa0060/serio0 | ssh slave atkbd /proc/self/fd/0
> 
> The patch is here:
>     http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/tmp/linux-2.6.5-userdev.20040507.patch
> 
> The driver is here:
>     http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/psaux/atkbd.c
> 
> (I haven't  tried this, as  I don't have  2 machines under  my control
> (==root) to try it out.  Please tell me the results.)
 
You can do this trivially without any patches, just by forwarding the
input events between the machines, reading evdev on one and using uinput
on the other. It will work without modification for mice, joysticks,
whatever you wish.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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