On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:51:31AM +0200, Nils Magnus Larsgard wrote: > tir, 18,.07.2006 kl. 15.31 +0200, skrev Denis Oliver Kropp: > > Nils Magnus Larsgard wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My situation: my linux box with directfb doesn't have keyboard or mouse, > > > but 6 buttons as input. I have a driver to use these buttons, but I > > > would very much like to generate keyboard signals to directfb from some > > > of these buttons. For instance: button1 should the 'up' key, button2 is > > > the 'down' key etc. > > > > > > Is there a simple way to pass signals to the keyboard driver, or should > > > I make my own button driver for directfb? > > > > You can just generate key events in your own driver. Or how are the > > buttons implemented now? > > > > For now, we have a simple driver without any interrupts, and so we poll > to read the button status. The plan is to make it interrupt-driven. > > Could I do something like open(some_dfb_device) and write(fd, key_event) > from an outside program/deamon?
Just write a linux kernel input driver for your hardware, or if you want your driver to live in user space you can use uinput. -- Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
