Subject: Re: Wskbd
To: anand lalgondar <anandlalgondar@hotmail.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/21/2003 20:20:13
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:54:07PM +0530, anand lalgondar wrote:
> Now when I connect a USB keyboard it gets detected as "wskbd0 at ukbd0" in 
> the dmesg. But when I press any key on the USB Keyboard it doesn't display 
> anything. I assume this is because I dont have any wsdisplay.

I see. This is what is sometimes called "split console" on sparcs, where you
can select at the firmware level to have input from serial console and output
to the graphics card - or vice versa.

I think unfortunately wscons does not provide this ability currently, but it
is a desirable extension.


Martin