On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Xu, Jiang wrote: > Well, this is the problem. > For some reasons, none of the /dev/tty /dev/tty0... /dev/console is > connected to the keyboard, I have tried listening all of them. Did I > configured something wrong? But kernel seems to be getting the key event > from the keyboard. > Another question is if it should connect to one of those device nodes, is > there anyway I can hack the kernel to see where the key event sent to? Do you have CONFIG_VT=y? I guess not. Do you receive anything on /dev/input/eventX? > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:26 PM > To: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: questions about keyboard > > > On Wed, 2004-04-14 14:18:18 -0600, Xu, Jiang <Jiang.Xu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > in message <F71A246055866844B66AFEB10654E7860F1B0B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > However, what I don't get is how can I get the key event from the > > kernel? I tried to listen to all the ttyN, but none of them connect to > the keyboard. > > I wonder how I can write a user space application that can get the key > > event? Could somebody help me out? Because it is an embedded device, > there > > is no X. > > Well, one of /dev/tty, /dev/tty0 or /dev/console should work. If you'd likt > to use the new'n'fancy style, use /dev/input/eventX . Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
