A Method to Detect Keyboard Model

[Pat Suwalski]

How does evdev know what's on the end of my PS2 cable? 90% (or more) of 
laptops out there use PS2 for their keyboard. I believe what you say is 
true for USB keyboards.

--Pat

Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Saturday 12 April 2008 10:37:48 Daniel Qarras wrote:
>> Do you think that a configuration tool should use HAL to determine the
>> optimal keyboard model? If so, is it already possible somehow?
> 
> Just use evdev? That's what the input hotplug stuff is already moving towards 
> anyway, and evdev doesn't require us to keep all those various different 
> keyboard layouts in X.
> 
> -Carlos