DOS ain't dead - How to detect if keyboard is connected?

How to detect if keyboard is connected? (Developers)

posted by Oso2k, 08.11.2014, 00:41

> Well, I got info that I would need to mess with USB to detect the KBD on
> this HW so I rather decided to write simple utility for detection a VGA
> (BIOS). If VGA is detected the console is not redirected to COM port
> (without checking kbd but it's linked together). For my case on 86duino it
> does the job.

Does the 86duino support the BDA fields 40:89 [0]?

[0] http://stanislavs.org/helppc/bios_data_area.html

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