Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:12:44AM +0200, jdd wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>
>> There is no way the hardware can report this, sorry.
>
> could it be that an indirect process could do: I mean, for example "hit 'a' 
> key" message, and scanning what key is hit
>
> how many key hits would be necessary to detect all the possible keyboards?

Actually, I think I have seen this type of detection before on other
operating systems (OSX I think), so this is a way to solve the problem.

But again, it's not something that can be detected automatically from
the hardware, which is what the original poster proposed.

thanks,

greg k-h
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