[SDL] Keyboard Light Emitting Diodes

[Sami Näätänen]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:16, Juan D. Espinoza wrote:
> What I am trying to do is set up the keyboard lights to reflect the
> players state ( IE: three LEDs great, two so so, one bad, and
> flashing would mean gameover ) I've been going through some of the
> code to manipulate the LEDs though I'm having trouble deciding how to
> go about it there are two ways ( as far as i can tell ) one through
> the kernel code tty, keyboard code and the such ( have look through
> the linux/kd.h ) that involves changing the lights not the state and
> the second seems to be through the X server I'm not certain which
> would be easier but you are correct when you say that you need
> control of the keyboard ( IE: through root, or uid access ) I know
> this not the most secure way to go about it but I'm pretty new to
> programming so this is the most likely way I'll implement it.

Remember to make those states visible trough other means, because some 
of us doesn't have those leds. (wireless keyboard)