Re: tlug: custom keyboard

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 07:48:47AM +0900, Cliff Miller wrote:
> I've been talking with some people who have a special keyboard and
> want it to be useable with Linux. It's a PS/2 keyboard and has some
> special keys and fairly different physical layout. Their application
> runs under X.

I occasionally use my Twiddler (a one-hand chord keyboard,
http://www.handykey.com) with Linux.  There are device drivers available in
source form that demonstrate taking the serial output from the Twiddler and
pumping it into Linux.  The a2x program (originally used to pipe
DragonDictate into X device events) is used to connect into X.

An interesting starting point might be:
http://www.handykey.com/drivers/twid-linux.tar.gz

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