My project wish-list for the next 12 months
Peter Wemm
peter at wemm.org
Thu Dec 2 16:24:23 PST 2004
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:17 pm, Foxfair Hu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > All,
>
> [....]
>
> > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with making
> > ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs.
> > Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real
> > keyboard devices and handles hotplug can solve this mess pretty
> > effectively. I know that there has been a lot of talk about this
> > on mailing lists recently but I don't know how much progress is
> > being made so I'm listing it here.
>
> How about reuse NetBSD's wscons ? I've kept an eye on it and
> thought it should be a good start for FreeBSD.
Only if it has 100% identical look/feel to syscons. ie: same key maps,
same ioctl's, same Xserver interface, same escape codes, etc. If not,
then over my dead body!
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