Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-24 Thread laurent . ml
hi, [...] i'm using the last 2.4.19 patch on a 2.4.19 kernel. My config is : - 1 ps2 keyboard - 1 usb keyboard - only 1 video card (a G550) for the moment.. the 2.4.19 patch works well on 2.4.19. (not on 2.4.20rc?, i haven't tried more than applying the patch) I have to use dumbcon=1 as a

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-13 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 7:12 am, you wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:27, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Two input groups doesn't make sense unless you have two foci. That means the concept the window with focus becomes the list

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: Each input group has one cursor. (Few, in any, graphics cards can cope with multiple hardware cursors, so above one cursor, the rest will have to be software cursors.) Popular window managers will be extended to support multiple input groups.

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: Each input group has one cursor. (Few, in any, graphics cards can cope with multiple hardware cursors, so above one cursor, the rest will have to be software cursors.) Popular

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, you wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: I would dearly love to see this working. Thoughts? well, I've done some more research, and it turns out that it's already been done. The linuxconsole project (linuxconsole.sourceforge.org) has done

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter in the event queue to say which input group created the event. I don't know that area, but I'm not sure that such a

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter in the event queue to say which input group

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread joe
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter in the event queue to say which input group

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 1:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread joe
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 1:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:27, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Two input groups doesn't make sense unless you have two foci. That means the concept the window with focus becomes the list of

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-11 Thread John Tapsell
I would dearly love to see this working. I can't answer your questions unfortunetly, but this is one way I envisage it working: In the XF86Config-4 file, an input group section is added. The syntax of CorePointer and SendCoreEvents is discarded (What is the difference between the primary and

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-10 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:20, Tim Wright wrote: snip I've almost finished patching the Linux HID Keyboard driver (2.4.19 kernel) so that it creates device nodes /dev/keyboards/keyboard?? for every USB keyboard. If you ignore these, then Linux functions

[Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Wright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, I'm working on extending X/Linux to use different keyboards with different X Servers. There are two parts to this problem, one I've almost finished and the other I need your help. I've almost finished patching the Linux HID Keyboard driver