Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-25,: Re: keyboard raw mode?

# Re: keyboard raw mode?

Mathieu Bouchard (boum01@UQAH.UQuebec.CA)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 03:44:15 -0400 (EDT)

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> >> into a TTY flip buffer, from which multiple processes can read the
> >> data. To fix, conversion must happen on the other side of the TTY
> >> buffer or the TTY buffer must be eliminated AFAIK.
> When raw keyboard mode is set, it must be set for all processes on the tty.
> We end up with a lot of ugly "fixes" to deal with this: sometimes people
> rely on SysRq, sometimes they run a daemon to check for problems, sometimes
> they log in over a network, and sometimes (mostly) they hit the big switch.
> It would be better to have the keyboard mode apply to the file descriptor,
> so that the mode would be restored when the file descriptor is closed.
> (the existing ioctl must remain, but only be used as a default value)

i'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. Is there a way to access
the keyboard directly? i'm not really talking about the raw tty mode, like
with a few Ctrl keys disabled, but the thing that
/usr/include/vgakeyboard.h is for, which disables ALL keys.

matju

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