From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261904AbTD2WwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:52:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261916AbTD2WwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:52:12 -0400 Received: from gatekeeper.jupiter.com ([192.77.175.1]:18948 "EHLO gatekeeper.jupiter.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261904AbTD2WwL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:52:11 -0400 Message-Id: <200304292304.h3TN47O24544@jupiter.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Multiple Keyboards Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:04:07 -0700 From: John Klingler Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Are there plans for the kernel to support multiple keyboard devices? (I'm running 2.4-18SMP, which maps them all to one device.) If not, perhaps someone can give me an idea of what I need to do. What I want to do is get several USB keyboards to map to: /dev/input/keyboard1, /dev/input/keyboard2, etc., the way multiple USB mice are handled. In case you wonder why anyone would like to do this, I want to support multiple X servers. --John Klingler