On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Xu, Jiang wrote:
> Well, this is the problem.
> For some reasons, none of the /dev/tty /dev/tty0... /dev/console is
> connected to the keyboard, I have tried listening all of them. Did I
> configured something wrong? But kernel seems to be getting the key event
> from the keyboard.
> Another question is if it should connect to one of those device nodes, is
> there anyway I can hack the kernel to see where the key event sent to?
Do you have CONFIG_VT=y? I guess not.
Do you receive anything on /dev/input/eventX?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:jbglaw@lug-owl.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:26 PM
> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Subject: Re: questions about keyboard
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 14:18:18 -0600, Xu, Jiang <Jiang.Xu@echostar.com> wrote
> in message <F71A246055866844B66AFEB10654E7860F1B0B@riv-exchb6.echostar.com>:
> > However, what I don't get is how can I get the key event from the
> > kernel? I tried to listen to all the ttyN, but none of them connect to
> the keyboard.
> > I wonder how I can write a user space application that can get the key
> > event? Could somebody help me out? Because it is an embedded device,
> there
> > is no X.
>
> Well, one of /dev/tty, /dev/tty0 or /dev/console should work. If you'd likt
> to use the new'n'fancy style, use /dev/input/eventX .
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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