Re: two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

Guys and girls,
  Can we do a FAQ on this or something?  It is comming up every week now.
JohnFlux



On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, Tim Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
> > I would dearly love to see this working.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> well, I've done some more research, and it turns out that it's already
> been done.
>
> The linuxconsole project (linuxconsole.sourceforge.org) has done this, and
> they've got a back-patch for kernel 2.4.19 and XFree86 4.2.0. However, I
> can't download either of them...possibly because of being in New Zealand
> or something. I dunno.
>
> What they did is extend the Linux console system so that all the virtual
> terminals use different keyboards. You just start multiple instances of X
> on whichever virtual terminal corresponds to the keyboard you want. I've
> heard it's pretty stable.
>
> If anyone manages to download the 2.4.19 patch and the X patch, can they
> email them to me, or possibly mirror the patches somewhere I'd be forever
> grateful. It's the ruby patch at:
>
> http://startx.times.lv/
>
> tim
> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
>
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
>
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