Re: [LAU] second qwerty

Justin, gentlemen, thanks for the help. It's much appreciated.
I have much to work with now, and a renewed optimism.

Alex.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Justin Smith <noisesmith@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Raine M. Ekman <raine@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, alex stone wrote:
> >> 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@email-addr-hidden www: http://www.iki.fi/%7Eraine/
> >
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> 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).
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