Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: User-space Keyboard input? | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:54:12 +0200 |
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Hi Mario,
> I'm working on BRLTTY[1], a user-space daemon which handles braille displays > on UNIX platforms. One of our display drivers recently gained the ability > to receive (set 2) scancodes from a keyboard connected directly to the display. > This is a very cool feature, since the display in question has > a bluetooth interface, making it effectively into a complete wireless > terminal (input and output through the same connection).
tell me more about this Bluetooth device.
> However, this creates some problems. First of all, we now have to deal > with keyboard layouts. Additionally, since we currently insert via > TIOCSTI I think this might get problematic as soon as one switches > to an X Windows console and modifiers come into play. > > Does anyone know (and can point me into the right direction) if > Linux has some mechanism to allow for user-space keyboard data to > be processed by the kernel as if it were received from the system > keyboard? I.e., keyboard layout would be handled by the same > mapping which is configured for the system.
Take a look at the user level driver support (uinput).
Regards
Marcel
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