From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757570AbYLLHDa (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751586AbYLLHDW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:03:22 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:49906 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751411AbYLLHDV (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:03:21 -0500 Message-ID: <49420B85.1040402@manoweb.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:58:13 -0800 From: Alessio Sangalli User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Keyboard not attached to any console X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1892FaQy2mSHD0G4ylUWt0QA8goIrWkNTKiyWG C1UGO3diKyZmxzAzgWYmRirLjXYvWZbWkOYAJE42UUk8NwLv6i P/UMKlkRSfem4zebozFyQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, how can I totally detach a keyboard from the console, so that I can just open its /dev/input/eventX device and get exclusive use? As far as I am concerned the console is on ttyS0 and I do not want events from supplementary keyboards (PS/2 or USB) to be propagated to anything else than applications explicitly opening the aforementioned devices. Back in 2.4 times I did something similar but now the whole input system looks so different :) In short I would like to: - have full control of the LEDs (I do not want the num-lock key to toggle the num-lock LED) - not propagate things like ctrl+alt+del (I know I can disable this one in inittab but that's not the point) thank you Alessio