Two keyboards

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Jan 21 17:27:31 PST 2005



Brooks Davis wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:46:21AM +0100, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote:
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>>Hi
>>
>>For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards 
>>(actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)).
>>
>>I've read a previous post and there it was supposed that one should 
>>write a driver to accomplish this.
>>I am not a C programmer and know far to little from FreeBSD to 
>>accomplish this.
>>
>>So I ask you, Isn't there a much easier way (other operating systems 
>>seem to have no problem with this)?
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>Other OSes have the intrastructure to support multiple keyboards.  We
>don't have one piece of that, the many to one keyboard mux.
>

But that's probably not what he wants..
He probably doesn't want data from the scanner (bar code?) intermixed 
randomly
with the data from the keyboard..

He just needs to read the device separatly.


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>-- Brooks
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