This defenatly belongs on another Xrelated list.

--- Austin Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:54:20AM +0800, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:42 +0000, Ian Molton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run?
> > > 
> > 
> > maybe.  they will probably co-exist for the forseeable future. 
> > "regular" multi-head allows you do have two independant X servers
> > while mergedfb always creates one single logical desktop.
> > 
> I have a question about "regular" multi-head with one card,two screens. 
> It allows we use two independant desktops. But from
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf,keyboard 
> and mouse configuration are included into "ServerLayout" section,not
> "Screen" 
> section. It seems that one Xserver can't use two independant keyboard
> and mouse.
> If I want to do a thing like this: one machine,1 video card with 2
> CRTS,2 mice,
> 2 keyboard. The individual keyboard/mouse is intended to work with one
> CRT, so that
> 2 person can use one machine at the same time. But one Xserver cann't
> handle this circumstance. 
> Miguel gave us a method on
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/g450.html.
> But it needs to hack Xserver, and start up two Xservers running on
> fbdev. 
> Do you have some comment on this issue?
> 
I would quote the original document...
I would love to see XFree86 supporting simultaneous layouts (without
another instance).

The X(7x) manpage has some info on how this should work under it's
"DISPLAY NAMES" section.

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