Q: Howto access the keyboard in a linux system without a graphics card ?

Q: Howto access the keyboard in a linux system without a graphics card ?

[Kai-Boris Schad]

Hi !

I'm trying to set up a small embedded system for gps receiving with a linux 
system.  I want to have the system working without a graphics card - wich 
works well. The Problem I have at the moment is to access the keyboard 
without a graphics card, because the console driver does not start then ( 
Also a redirect doesn't work then :-( ) 
Is there a way to access the keyboard in this case by a user program ?
The system recognises the keyboard ( I think Kernel and init) and reacts if 
ctrl-alt-del is pressed.

Thanks for your help !

Kai

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Kai-Boris Schad 
University of Ulm, Germany
Dept. of Electron Devices and Circuits
Integrated Circuits in Communications
Albert Einstein Allee 45
89069 ULM

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Re: Q: Howto access the keyboard in a linux system without a graphics card ?

[Eric Lammerts]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Kai-Boris Schad wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a small embedded system for gps receiving with a linux
> system.  I want to have the system working without a graphics card - wich
> works well. The Problem I have at the moment is to access the keyboard
> without a graphics card, because the console driver does not start then (
> Also a redirect doesn't work then :-( )
> Is there a way to access the keyboard in this case by a user program ?
> The system recognises the keyboard ( I think Kernel and init) and reacts if
> ctrl-alt-del is pressed.

What would probably work, is to add funkey support to your kernel
(http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/), define all keys of your
keyboard to be funkeys, and read them from /dev/funkey.

Eric