Using two keyboards.

Radical_Dreamer · 07-22-2005, 10:19 PM

I recently bought another keyboard, a compaq usb keyboard with the media keys and what what. I pluged it into my USB port and never took out my ps2 keyboard, I coldplugged it and they bot work, only not seprately, I cant make it so that I press one button on one, (like those media keys, or change workstations, that stuff.) and still do stuff with the other. My goal here is to have one keyboard for typing, and one with a buch of keys binded to it, so I can execute commands quickly.

Any help will be much appreciated.

--Rad

MikeZila · 07-23-2005, 12:25 AM

I think it might be a low-level thing. I don't know if your computer's bios is cool with you having two keyboards.

I'm not sure if this is possible.

Matir · 07-23-2005, 12:48 AM

keycodes are not attached to any particular device, as far as I know. There are some "unique" solutions out there (i.e. userful) but I think they use special hardware and kernel drivers.

Radical_Dreamer · 07-23-2005, 12:03 PM

Well, what I began to think was that sence one of them is a usb keyboard, I could just make it a usb device, and map the imputs manually. I would have to set it up so that it didnt coldplug it at start though...

Matir · 07-23-2005, 12:12 PM

To do that, just add the usb keyboard driver to the hotplug blacklist.

Radical_Dreamer · 07-23-2005, 02:28 PM

Yeah, but I still dont know how to map it as a usb device.