15 Nov
2008
15 Nov
'08
7:46 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Raine M. Ekman <raine(a)iki.fi> wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, alex stone wrote:
AFAIK here is no need to fool X, or modify your kernel. Tell X
precisely which device to use for keyboard input (the devices are in
the /dev/input/ directory, I recommend using the symlinks in
/dev/input/by-id/), and it will happily ignore all other keyboards.
After that, you just need to read the hid device created by the kernel
for that keyboard - if PD already has this coded, all the easier, but
the interface is very easy to use (I did something very similar, with
8 mice connected to the computer, all but 1 ignored by X11 -- it was a
weekend hack, more or less, to make it work).
Arnold, that's what i figured.
If I can 'fool' X config into thinking the second qwerty is some sort of
midi, or 'non-default qwerty' controller, then i'm wondering if it's
possible to use it in a wider sense for script starts,etc..
I will admit i know next to nothing about this, hence the question.
The easiest solution might be using a PS/2 keyboard for typing and having
a USB one for other purposes, through the event interface, as explained in
step 3 in the procedure here:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3100/1/
I don't know how well that connects to PD, but I'd be surprised to hear
that it can't be done.. and a universal script-invocation thingie
shouldn't be too hard either, it probably already exists somewhere.
(As this is my delurking on this list, I'd like to thank everybody for the
often valuable, sometimes entertaining and very rarely annoying mailings
:)
--
Raine M. Ekman tel: 0400 838 395
raine(a)iki.fi www: http://www.iki.fi/%7Eraine/
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