How does KDQUEMODE work? (This time for sure!)
Peter M. Jansson
petej at ssg0.pharmacia.com
Sat Oct 20 05:48:23 AEST 1990
I'm trying to port Tom Roell's X11R4 server to our Intel Unix SysVr3.2
systems, and I'm having some trouble getting asynchronous input from
the keyboard. Although I can think of a solution involving a fork,
and a stream pipe, I notice in my manual entry for DISPLAY(4) (a perfectly
obvious place to put information about the keyboard, I thought) the
following:
[in the section on ioctl's]
KDQUEMODE
Enable/Disable special queue mode. [blah, blah, blah].
The structure "kd_quemode" is as follows:
This implies that the DISPLAY driver has a means of allowing the mouse and
keyboard to collect input into a queue and generate a signal when the queue
is non-empty. Unfortunately, I can't find any other documentation for this
mode. I was hoping some kind soul can answer a few questions:
1. What is the structure of the queue pointed to by the
pointer in the hd_quemode structure? What is
the initial state of the queue (head/tail)? How
is the queue accessed? How does the driver
synchronize with an application reading stuff?
2. How is a mouse hooked in to this? What kind of mouse?
If it is a bus mouse, from where is the driver
available?
3. In a simple test, I enabled this mode and then waited for
either a signal or a read. Neither completes,
no matter what I do to the keyboard. How do I get
it to work? Are other ioctl's required?
I will appreciate any help. Replies by mail are encouraged.
Thanks,
Pete.
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