Keyboard mapping

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/22/05, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor at dunaweb.hu> wrote:
> Jon Smirl írta:
> > Another issue is multiple keyboards. It's not clear to me if the
> > kernel supports multiple simultaneous keymaps.
> 
> The mainstream kernel blends all keyboards together, e.g.
> no matter which keyboard you type on, the active console
> gets it.
> 
> This is changed in the Ruby multiconsole extension,
> http://linuxconsole.sf.net or http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/
> where multiple active consoles exist and keyboards are assigned
> to their respective consoles. The keyboards can be reassigned
> manually later. With this extension, every keyboards can have
> their own keymaps.

Another way to solve this in the kernel would be to move the keymap
code out of VC over to the input driver.  That would make it easy to
have one map for each keyboard.

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Jon Smirl
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