On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:19:28AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > By the way, when you have buggy multi-PC KB switcher, and > > KB goes crazy, restarting gpm also intialize KB nicely. > > > OK, I'll offer a test. I do have a keyboard I want to try, and I don't > want to go through the hassle of shutting down. How am I to issue a > command if I disconnect the keyboard and the new one doesn't work? > > I'm serious -- I am exactly in that position right now, and I'd welcome > the opportunity to try this out. What do I need to do (please be fairly > explicit, I've still got a lot to learn about this)
Try this long command: # while true; do /etc/init.d/gpm stop echo -n Swap your keyboard... sleep 30 /etc/init.d/gpm start echo and try it out... sleep 300 done The sleep 30 will give you time to dis/reconnect the keyboard. The sleep 300 will give you some time to test the new keyboard (on a different virtual console that is) And the while will give several runs to try it. Stop the while with Ctrl-C. But don't sue me if it doesn't work:) -- groetjes, carel