[PD] Using two qwerty keyboards (one standard, one USB) attached to the same PC

[ClaudiusMaximus]

I have a spare USB qwerty keyboard lying around not doing anything 
useful, and I was wondering whether it is possible to have two keyboards 
connected to the same PC (running GNU/Linux Red Hat 9 PlanetCCRMA) 
without the OS getting horribly confused.  Has anyone tried this 
successfully?  How do you set it up (what externals etc do I need)?

The plan is to have the USB keyboard as an interface to trigger Pd 
events (I like the tracker-style 2.5 octave set-up) while the normal 
keyboard is used simultaneously for text entry.

Extending this idea, what about one standard qwerty keyboard for typing 
and multiple USB qwerty keyboards (with multiple humans) for controlling Pd?

I'm too poor to afford all these fancy OSC control surfaces that seem to 
be all the rage these days...


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