Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:50:59AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hi, James!
> 
> > So as you can see even USB keyboards depend on pc_keyb.c. So their is
> > no way around this.
> 
> Perhaps redefining kbd_read_input() will help. It's cruel, I know :-)

Or just kill allocating the IRQ in the pc_keyb.c file. It worked for me.

> > You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I
> > have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't
> > have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS
> > get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As you can it is very easy to
> > multiplex many keyboards with the above design. I have had 4 different
> > keyboards hooked up to my system and functioning at the same time. We
> > even got a Sun keyboard to work on a intel box :-)
> 
> That's what we like Linux for. It doesn't get confused when everything
> else does :-)
> 
> Thanks for your very interesting reply.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs