From: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6?
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:38:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031215203858.GA287@node1.opengeometry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDDA686.6030502@aitel.hist.no>
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@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 20:39 UTC|newest]
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2003-12-12 21:43 ` Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6? William Park
2003-12-13 13:14 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-13 21:12 ` William Park
2003-12-15 12:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-15 20:38 ` William Park [this message]
2003-12-15 17:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-12 22:27 Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-12 22:45 ` William Park
2003-12-12 23:09 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-12 23:46 ` William Park
2003-12-13 1:05 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-13 10:20 ` John Bradford
2003-12-13 10:28 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
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2003-12-12 10:03 Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-12 9:12 Boszormenyi Zoltan
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