Sunday, September 23, 2007

Palm Wireless Keyboard

I recently borrowed Palm Wireless Keyboard from |miska| to write a driver for it. First of all, it's not a good idea to polute kernel sources with more and more keyboard driver modules. Moreover when there already is a nice and clean solution called kbdd for handling all those serial/bluetooth/irda keyboards too, so I decided to use it. The following patch adds palmwk support to kbdd.

Patch: http://marex.hackndev.com/01-add-palmwk.patch

To use it just compile kernel with CONFIG_SERIAL_PXA_IR=y and run "kbdd -p /dev/ttyS2 -t palmwk". If you configure kbdd using kbdd.conf, it's even easier since at least in angstrom it's started automagically every time you boot and you wont have to type that command at all. There are just minor changes in the original palmwk keymap, that is "Green FN" + Numbers works as Fx keys (convenient eg. in mc) instead of special characters.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Opie-borderapplet 0.2

I added PalmTX support to borderapplet, you can download it here:
http://marex.hackndev.com/borderapplet-0.2.tar.bz2
SHA1: 6bf2ec837b49f6d07e770b01f9640f2b7bc739ee

For further information about borderapplet, refer to this article:
http://marex-hnd.blogspot.com/2007/07/lifedrive-borderapplet-for-opie.html