Two keyboards

[Doug Ambrisko]

Julian Elischer writes:
| David Scheidt wrote:
| > Julian Elischer wrote:
| >> Bram Van Steenlandt wrote:
| >>> For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards
| >>> (actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)).
| >>
| >> you can already do this..
| >> what makes you call the scanner a keyboard?
| >
| > Proabably, because it acts like one?  I don't know about the USB ones,
| > but PS/2 scanners generated keysym data, just like a real keyboard. The
| > idea of the hardware people is "They've already got a keyboard, they
| > take input from it, so let's make the scanner a keyboard!"  It makes it
| > easy to use a barcode reader with an application that doesn't know
| > anything about barcodes, barcode scanners or the like.
|
| the barcode scanners we use just produce a 9600 baud serial stream.

The PS/2 and USB versions I've used appear as a keyboard and just "key in"
the data like a keyboard.  To get data from the USB I just did a
"cat /dev/ukbd0" for scans.  They've had built-in wdges.  Makes it
really easy to integrate into systems.

Doug A.