I have a spare USB qwerty keyboard lying around not doing anything useful, and I was wondering whether it is possible to have two keyboards connected to the same PC (running GNU/Linux Red Hat 9 PlanetCCRMA) without the OS getting horribly confused. Has anyone tried this successfully? How do you set it up (what externals etc do I need)?
The plan is to have the USB keyboard as an interface to trigger Pd events (I like the tracker-style 2.5 octave set-up) while the normal keyboard is used simultaneously for text entry.
Extending this idea, what about one standard qwerty keyboard for typing and multiple USB qwerty keyboards (with multiple humans) for controlling Pd?
I'm too poor to afford all these fancy OSC control surfaces that seem to be all the rage these days...