Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:41:52 -0700
Foxfair Hu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>All,
>>
> 
> [....]
> 
>>1.  Keyboard multiplexer.  We are running into problems with making
>>ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs.
>>Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real
>>keyboard devices and handles hotplug can solve this mess pretty
>>effectively.  I know that there has been a lot of talk about this on
>>mailing lists recently but I don't know how much progress is being made
>>so I'm listing it here.
> 
> 
>    How about reuse NetBSD's wscons ? I've kept an eye on it and thought
> it should be a good start for FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> foxfair
> 

If it provides keyboard mux'ing like we need, then please go and
give it a shot.

Scott
Received on Thu Dec 02 2004 - 00:41:41 UTC

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