Quoting Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Friday 04 July 2003 03:48 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > sort of reply to
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=105727878726175&w=2
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >These incredibly fast macines have way more than enough power for many
> > >standard home users, wouldn't this be cool.
> > >
> > >I seem to recall somebody hacking a solution like this into XFree 4.0.x
> >
> > ...
> > You probably mean:
> > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/index.html
> >
> > regarding the How-To:
> > i tried to push such kernel to cooker, texstar, rpmhelp.net,
> > but there was no interest at all
> > the common answer was: "please no more kernels, we have enough kernel
> > packages"
> >
> > i supose we'll have to wait until this is merged in linux-2.7 (and
> mandrake
> > kernel based on it), to get this ability from a vanila mandrake box.
> >
> Well, to be really useful, it's got to be easier to configure than it is in
> 
> your HOWTO.  Not that I cannot follow the directions, but the easiiest 
> scenario is plugging in the extra equipment, checkiing a box and having iot
> 
> work.

it's not that hard (for a dual user system :) )
but the how-to tries to cover pretty advanced configurations,
so it gets "a little bit" toooooo long.

i'll add some intro about what to read for which configuration,
but i can not make it smaller 
(and it'll get even bigger when i get ruby-2.5 running for dual-user
on a single card - using framebuffer on Matrox G550 DH)

basicly you need only to install the kernel & may be patched XFree,
configure XFree for additional input devices(mice) and additional layouts.
and setup dm to start the X servers. but that's for 2 users.

if one wants to setup 4,5,6 users he'll have to check advanced configuration of
input devices, hot-pluging....

plus there are some tweaks( which are of course optional)
using different sound cards for the different screens,
automatically/manually switching the number of running X servers,
different wellcome screens on the different displays 

best,

svetljo 


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