Ville Syrjälä wrote: > 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.
Another alternative is DiVine :) -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
