[PD] raw keyboard input?

[Christian Klippel]

hi,

Am Mittwoch, 3. März 2004 16:04 schrieb Bill Sack:

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> i found and built hans' linuxevent objects, but i'm missing some basic
> bit of information regarding the linux event system. the hid module is
> loaded on my machine, but trying any of the examples in linuxhid reports
> something like:
>
> [linuxevent] open /dev/input/keyboard failed
>
> googling around produced the USB HID for Linux USB document which didn't
> really help that much.

you need the following, either as modules or compiled in your kernel :

evdev 
input 

the hid module alone wont help you ....
"input" grabs "hid", "evdev" grabs "input" to make it available as 
/dev/input/eventX

greets,

chris