On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:52, Zephaniah E\. Hull wrote: > > Something comes to mind, but to be blunt it is still a hack, and it > > could easily result in a system with no keyboard at all if X crashes. > > > > Throw in a fake event, that tells the keyboard driver to ignore > > everything from that input device until it receives the command again > > with a different value. > > > > I don't really like it, but at the same time I don't see anything overly > > better. > I don't think that anything you do on the event interface should affect the > keyboard interface. > > Why not a special "disable output' ioctl on the keyboard interface?
Possibly quite feasible, however I don't know the details of the keyboard interface, but I suppose if nobody else cares to do this, then I suppose I will look into it. Zephaniah E. Hull. > > Brad > -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. }>No. I just point out to troublemakers that I have an English degree, }>which means that I am allowed to make changes to the English language. }>(What _else_ could it possibly be for?) }Wow; in that case, my physics degree is *WAY* more useful than I }had thought. This just proves how useless a computer science degree is: there is hardly any useful science involved at all. I want my computer black magic degree! -- Victoria Swann, Jonathan Dursi, and D. Joseph Creighton on ASR
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