[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] writing a keyboard driver

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Florian Mayer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> another Question: I have written a keyboard driver for SUN SPARC
> keyboards. It runs on OPIE and uses its InputMethod interface. It is a
> quick hack, that's why I did not release it right now to the public. It
> builds more or less with OpenEmbedded.
> SUN keyboards work very good with PDAs because they almost have an
> RS-232 port. You need just two ICs to get them connected to a PDA. Type
> 4 keyboards are also quite compact.
> Where should this driver be integrated? Is there an interface for that
> in the X-Server or in the Hildon-Framework?

Have a look at http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/kbdd. Kbdd will
generate input events to the kernel (like a normal keyboard) via uinput,
so you won't need extra driver for opie/gpe/x/maemo/gtk/etc.

regards,

Koen

> 
> Regards
> Flori
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