Subject: Re: Wskbd
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/22/2003 00:29:43
You could use a serial line as the keyboard for a console by writing
a small program that accepts characters from the tty and injects them
into the wskbd mux.  A similar program, moused, already exists for
serial mice.

    -- Lennart

Martin Husemann wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:54:07PM +0530, anand lalgondar wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>
>Martin
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