Re: [CentOS] multi-seated configuration
Here what i have been working for a while, it is a free for a two seat solution. http://www2.userful.com/products/downloads/free-2-user Regards 2010/2/23 Andy Graybeal andy.grayb...@casanueva.com is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS? I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers. I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS. I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this. Any information would be helpful. -Andy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] multi-seated configuration
is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS? I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers. I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS. I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this. Any information would be helpful. -Andy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multi-seated configuration
On 2/23/2010 2:13 PM, Andy Graybeal wrote: is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS? I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers. I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS. I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this. Any information would be helpful. I think that can be done but it is probably more common to use old/underpowered PCs as thin clients using LTSP or something to network-boot into X with a remote session from a more powerful server. You get the same effect without the distance restrictions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multi-seated configuration
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Andy Graybeal andy.grayb...@casanueva.com wrote: is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS? I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers. I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS. I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this. It's pretty trivial on CentOS. Check these links: http://wpkg.org/Configuring_multiseat_X_workstation http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat The Nvidia binary drivers work fine. The main thing you're doing is defining an extra keyboard and mouse attached to each Screen entry in the xorg.conf file. Restart X and voila... This works easily with USB keyboard/mouse... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multi-seated configuration
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 14:40 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: I think that can be done but it is probably more common to use old/underpowered PCs as thin clients using LTSP or something to network-boot into X with a remote session from a more powerful server. I use a half-dozen Neoware Capio 616 thin clients with LTSP 4.2 on Centos 5. The setup works great, and you can get those thin clients on ebay for $10 or $20 each, sometimes. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multi-seated configuration
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Andy Graybeal andy.grayb...@casanueva.com wrote: is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS? I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers. I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS. I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this. One caveat is sound support.. I had to play around with the sound driver loading so that root runs the sound server and allows the other users to connect. If you ran two sound servers on different cards or use some sort of network sound it may be easier. I ended up just disabling the sound for the second user. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
