16 Nov
2008
16 Nov
'08
11:19 p.m.
Justin Smith 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).
That's really interesting. Did
you have multiple mice controlling
different programs?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.