KBDE

Section: KBDE Programmer's manual (4)
Updated: January 4, 2004
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NAME

kbde - keyboard emulator

DESCRIPTION

The file /dev/kbde is a character write-only device with major number 11 and minor number 0. (It was modeled after Sparc-Linux which has device kbd with these number).

Purpose of this driver - emulate keyboard for keyboard-less (x86) computers.

For example, we have keyboard-like device connected to the serial port 1. Following, will do a work:

user_process < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/kbde

user_process is user process, which undestand device protocol and translate device output into keyboard emulator input.

Keyboard emulator input is a scancode sequience - exactly as it will be generated by real keyboard.

EXAMPLES

Example 1. Emulate "a" insert


"a" - press
"a" - release

printf "\x1E\x9E" > /dev/kbde

Example 2. Emulate "A" insert

: "shift" - press "a" - press "a" - release "shift" - release

printf "\x2A\x1E\x9E\xAA" > /dev/kbde

FILES

/dev/kbde

AUTHOR

Valery Reznic <valery_reznic@users.sourceforge.net>.

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