On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Raine M. Ekman <raine@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxx www: http://www.iki.fi/%7Eraine/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > 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). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
