Multiple USB keyboards

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Sun Oct 23 01:54:25 PDT 2005


On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:30:46 -0700
"Loren M. Lang" <lorenl at alzatex.com> wrote:

> I am developing a specialized keyboard that uses the HID protocol, but I
> have found it difficult to test on FreeBSD because I need to unplug my
> existing USB keyboard to use it.  I have actually switch my system to
> NetBSD when I'm working on it since NetBSD will merge all keyboard
> events from all PS/2/USB keyboards and send them to the console.  Is
> there any support/plans to support this in FreeBSD?  I'd really like to
> stick with it, but it's becoming two much work since I go back and forth
> between each keyboard a lot.

"man kbdmux" on a 7-current or 6.x system. But beware, it still has
some bugs (the system may freeze).

Bye,
Alexander.

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