tlug: custom keyboard

[Cliff Miller <cliff@example.com>]

Hi,

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.

For the past several years they've been making systems with HP
hardware and apparently they had to write their own rather low-level
keyboard driver.  

Does anyone out there have experience with this kind thing or know
what's involved?  Is it going to be just a matter of changing some X
keyboard mappings, or is it something much more involved?

Thanks,

Cliff
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