Subject: Re: Wskbd
To: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/22/2003 18:57:39
Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> One problem with wscons is that it's an all-or-nothing device: either
>
>it has control of both input and output or it is unusable. If you have
>a wscons-enabled keyboard, you also need a wscons-enabled output device
>or the input will go nowhere.
>
>
I don't believe that's true. If the wskbd does not belong to the
console you
can just open /dev/wskbd[N] and process the events as you see fit.
One possibility would be to inject them into /dev/console (if TIOCSTI works
for /dev/console).
-- Lennart