On Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:32 AM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> When I plug a special purpose keyboard into the USB port, it creates a
> /dev/input/event9
> It then provides input to the terminal as though it was a keyboard.
> Unfortunately, the key mappings are all wrong for this keyboard.
> Is there some way I can do key translations between the the USB
> keyboard and the terminal.
> The problem is I only want the translations to occur to events from
> /dev/input/event9 and not any other keyboard/mouse device that is also
> plugged in.
> Alternatively, is there a way that I can get these events to not even
> reach the terminal, and allow me to write a daemon that would listen
> to /dev/input/event9 and provide a interface to my specific
> application.
Try sending ioctl EVIOCGRAB to the device after you open it in your daemon.
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