From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:25:59 +0100 (MET)

Re: Multiple users

Hi !

> I've recently gotten a USB mouse and keyboard, and started looking
> at the Linux USB code. Yesterday I added support in LibGII for USB
> mice under Linux (use protocol "lnxusb"), and am now using my
> MouseMan Wheel with mhub. 

Great !

> Works great with all four buttons and the wheel. As of kernel 2.3.25 the 
> USB mouse driver only supports one USB mouse, 

ARGL ... will they make the same mistakes again over and over ?

> but if none of the USB people does it before me I intend to fix that.

Good. TNX.

> As for keyboards it seems you can attach multiple USB keyboards,
> but everything will go into the normal (single-headed) console
> system via calls to handle_scancode(), so multiple keyboards are
> pretty useless. 

Ouch ...

> I intend to hack the USB keyboard driver to export
> a character device per keyboard, supporting medium-raw mode and
> the normal keyboard LED ioctl()s. If the USB people doesn't like
> that I'll maintain a separate patch.

Hmm - I'd rather just export an event oriented interface and handle dispatching
in userspace ... greetings from EvStack, you know ... :-).

But well, that's up to you, as you will do it.

CU, Andy

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Andreas Beck              |  Email :  <Andreas.Beck@ggi-project.org>