On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:34 PM, S V <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have one pretty specific problem, i have two USB keyboards >> attached to the samsung nc10 laptop. And then i want to >> attach different layouts to each i >> stumble into one problem. >> >> $ xinput -list > ... >> So i can't separate each keyboard from others by device ids... >> Can anybody help me to find where source of this behavior >> lie and how i can fix it?
this is interesting to me, because I wondered about this a few days ago. > The multiplexing of the two keyboards to one input is done here, I > believe, in the wscons layer. If so, it should be possible to use > wsconsctl to set the mappings of the two independently. For example, > on my laptop, when docked with a USB keyboard plugged in, wsconsctl > shows entries for "keyboard.map" (the built-in keyboard) and > "keyboard1.map" (the USB keyboard). I have a netbook where I have: $ grep keyboard /etc/wsconsctl.conf | grep -v ^# keyboard.encoding=us.swapctrlcaps Then I want to connect a Sun keyboard (with the Control key in its proper location) via USB connection. $ sudo wsconsctl | grep keyboard | grep -e encoding -e type wsconsctl: Use explicit arg to view keyboard.map. wsconsctl: Use explicit arg to view keyboard1.map. keyboard.type=pc-xt keyboard.encoding=us.swapctrlcaps keyboard1.type=usb keyboard1.encoding=us In the virtual terminal (this is -current-ish amd64) each keyboard acts independently with their respective encoding. On the netbook keyboard, CapsLock acts as the Control key, while on the Sun keyboard, Control acts as Control (as it should). Enabling caps-lock on the netbook keyboard, does not affect the Sun keyboard and vice versa (as expected). However, in X11, both keyboards act as if swapctrlcaps are enabled. Pressing Control on the Sun keyboard turns on caps-lock on both keyboards. I attempted to play with xorg.conf to see if I can define a separate InputDevice section for the Sun keyboard, but gave up after a few permutations. The X documentation (man-pages) pretty much suck. I wasn't going to post on this topic, but since it has been brought up, might has well ask: Is what I want to do possible in Xorg? Cheers, --patrick
