Re: usb keyboard translations

On 1 November 2010 15:58, H Hartley Sweeten
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:32 AM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

quoted

When I plug a special purpose keyboard into the USB port, it creates a
/dev/input/event9
It then provides input to the terminal as though it was a keyboard.
Unfortunately, the key mappings are all wrong for this keyboard.
Is there some way I can do key translations between the the USB
keyboard and the terminal.
The problem is I only want the translations to occur to events from
/dev/input/event9 and not any other keyboard/mouse device that is also
plugged in.
Alternatively, is there a way that I can get these events to not even
reach the terminal, and allow me to write a daemon that would listen
to /dev/input/event9 and provide a interface to my specific
application.

Try sending ioctl EVIOCGRAB to the device after you open it in your daemon.

That was what I was looking for.

Thank you

James