keyboard dilemmas

keyboard dilemmas

[Cheryl Homiak]

When I use speakup, it has its own keymap and that isn't a problem.
However, I have been loaned a braillelite and am using that more than
speakup; I also use emacspeak at times. My problem is that none of the
keymaps I have loaded seems to be quite right. As far as I know I have a
standard us qwerty keyboard; would be 100 or 101 keys, depending on
whether or not you are supposed to count the space bar. On my system, I've
tried the us international iso8859-1, whatever keyboard the kernel
installed, the plain qwerty us keyboard, the us-latin and whatever default
keymaps were in /etc (some of these are of course duplicates). I either
get a keypad where the right alt doesn't work, so that i have to do left
alt plus F-1 to change consoles; this keyboard also doesn't respond to
singlekey with lilo; I have to hit enter in addition. But the numeric
keypad works. My other choice seems to be a keyboard where the right alt
key
work, singlekey is functioning, but the numeric keypad doesn't work. How
do I go about finding a qwerty keymap that works; I really can't imagine
that I would have to define my own keymap for this keyboard but something
certainly isn't right. there

Re: 2nd keyboard question (Was: keyboard dilemmas)

[L. C. Robinson]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
<snip>
> I either get a keypad where the right alt doesn't work, so
> that i have to do left alt plus F-1 to change consoles;
> this keyboard also ...

This is normal behavior, unless you customize.  Right-alt F1
through F12 are normally set up to reach consoles 13 through
24.  Your distribution probably doesn't even have all the
devices made in /dev for all the 64 possible virtual
terminals (who needs them), but there is a script,
/dev/MAKEDEV, to assist in making such things.  Then you can
add gettys in /etc/inittab, for as many as you can keep
track of. (grin)

You can also do alt-right-arrow, and alt-left-arrow to move
between consoles, and other mappings are possible, such as
alt-SysRq, to toggle between two.

Finally, there's a daemon you can run that will dynamically
start new gettys on additional consoles on demand, and you
can probably use the "open" command to start anything you
want on an unused console, provided it is SUID (a security
hole), or you have permissions for the tty.

Now here's what I'm wondering about: is it possible to
independently assign some ttys or pseudo terminals to a
second keyboard (say, a USB one), while allowing sighted
family members or co-workers to use the normal console
(probably with X-windows running in one of the consoles)?

LCR

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