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fredizzimo / infinity_ergodox

Unofficial keyboard firmware for Input Club's Infinity Ergodox
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KVM support #12

Open ec1oud opened 8 years ago

ec1oud commented 8 years ago

So far it's not happy being plugged in to the dedicated keyboard port on my Aten CS-1764: it powers up, but on master branch the LCD backlights stay at the startup orange color and never turn green, and I can't type. On the "led" branch, the keyboard keeps resetting. Whereas I also have an Ergodox EZ running the QMK firmware, and that one works great on my KVM at work. So I know that KVM support is often considered difficult, but at least it's clearly not impossible. Maybe we could find specific patches that made it work, since QMK was supposedly forked from TMK.

fredizzimo commented 8 years ago

Hi @ec1oud,

I will look at this, I'm not sure how much I can do without being able to test it myself though, but at least I can try to find the patches, and see if I can do something similar.

I'm also considering moving over to QMK instead of TMK. It would be a lot of work, since there's no ChibiOS support for example, but I think it would be worth it. I have a lot of trouble getting any of my patches accepted in the official TMK firmware, so that's big cause of frustration for me.

Additionally QMK, has moved far more forward recently, and there's a lot of stuff that I would like to support. I also think that the keymaps could be shared with the Ergodox EZ, which would be an additional huge advantage.

But this is a discussion, which I will open soon on the QMK issue list.