On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:11:25PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> And lastly - why does the wscons protocol option require a device name?
> Defaulting it to /dev/wskbd should do the trick.
I am not sure here. In wscons, there are two fundamentally different
ways to access keyboards in the "we have more than one" case:
/dev/wskbd is a multiplex device, which mixes all keyboards assigned to
the console; so you can plug in a USB keyboard and use that
as console keyboard instead of the previosly attached
PS/2 keyboard.
/dev/wskbd0 ...
/dev/wskbdN are "single" keyboards, not multiplexed together.
For the X server, you should be able to configure multiple heads and
multiple keyboards, each of which would talk "protocol wscons" but use
a different /dev/wskbdX.
I talked to Michael about this before, and he thinks the kernel does not
get this right for raw scancode mode, but I would call that a bug.
(And neither me nor him have actually tested such a setup, AFAIK)
I think the XFree server would not get this right, since there only is
a single xf86Info instance - but I might be missing something.
> Would it be better to write an input driver module for wskbd that uses
> wscons' hardware-independent scancodes instead? Seeing the mess that the
> current code is I'd almost think so.
I'd second this - and the #ifdef linux|freebsd stuff in xf86PosteKbdEvent
should be transformed too - though I'm not sure anyone ever tested it.
Martin
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