A Method to Detect Keyboard Model

Carlos Corbacho carlos at strangeworlds.co.uk
Wed Apr 23 14:00:06 PDT 2008


On Wednesday 23 April 2008 20:21:05 Pat Suwalski wrote:
> How does evdev know what's on the end of my PS2 cable?

It doesn't need to - the kernel and HAL need to to map the scancodes from the 
keyboard correctly.

> 90% (or more) of 
> laptops out there use PS2 for their keyboard.

And my laptop is exactly what I am using evdev with here.

-Carlos
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