[ltp] External USB space saver keyboard with linux?

[Tod Harter]

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 09:59 am, Boyan wrote:

Generally speaking all you need to know is what device the mouse is. I don't 
know how your system is set up exactly, so I cannot tell you for certain, but 
my MDK8.2 desktop system has a symlink from /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mouse0, 
and other than that the InputDevice section of the XF86Config is:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

(which is for my standard 3 button USB wheelmouse). Your mouse MIGHT use a 
different protocol, I don't know, but that you can easily experiment with, my 
bet is that 'IMPS/2' will work since I've never yet seen a USB mouse it 
didn't work with...

As for the keyboard, I haven't any experience with USB keyboards yet myself, 
so I'm not really able to help you there, but I'd be pretty surprised if its 
not a standard HID device. 

> *** List MOVED use linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org for future postings
> ***Hello,
>
> trying to integrate the external USB space saver keyboard with Hub (for
> IntelliStation) in the tp 600x running linux (suse 8.0). Have no idea
> how to do this, and X-configurator SAX does not recognise the keyboard
> (88-keys). It has also an in-built track point with 3 buttons exactly
> as the thinkpad. I guess the file /etc/X11/XF86config has to be edited
> to account for the additional keyboard and mouse, but how?
>
> Tried the keyboard with windows 98 and 2k also on a desktop and it
> works (with the drivers supplied), so it is not a hardware issue.
>
> Happy at any suggestion,
> Boyan
>
> PS: It is a real pleasure to type with this keyboard, remains the linux
> issue.