Chris' XFree86 stuff [was: Re: [plug] usbkeybd device under Debian?]

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:27, Harry McNally wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:42:29 +0800 James Devenish
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> I've since thought about a simple little USB to eight PS/2 port box
> (pentagonal of course) based on say the Cypress Semiconductor USB
> microcontroller and a bit of driver code to support the multiple keyboards
> and mice. This is simpler than the BTBH [0] first option which was a PCI
> card with eight ps/2 ports.


Thanks Harry,

I just wanted to say that you can do it with a standard machine without
using USB (alebit limited to one additional user) that is your you plug
a second PS/2 keboard into the PS/2 mouse port (it's the same hardware)
and use two serial mice. There was a guy talking about how he tried this
out on the Linux console mailing list.

I'll look for the post:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg229365.html

thanks,

Chris

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