I currently have a Logitech Cordless MX mouse+keyboard, another Logitech
keyboard, but not cordless, and a Microsoft intellimouse explorer.
Everything USB. Work like a charm all at once. USB2 has great potential,
yknow...

В Птн, 14.11.2003, в 09:23, Chris I пишет:
> On 2003.11.13 22:40, Bryce wrote:
> > Hi All. I've been curious about this for a while, and was wondering  
> > if
> > its
> > possible. Is there a way to have 1 machine fascilitate 2 or more
> > monitors,
> > keyboards, & mouse. Each Monitor having its own Xsession, using its
> > own
> > keyboard,etc.
> > 
> > Kind of like a dummy terminal, just have the extra montiros directly
> > connect
> > to the host computer. And have the mice and keyboards go through USB.
> > 
> > Is this possible???
Something very close to this is possible by modifying
/etc/X11/XF86Config so that there exist several VGA-card - monitor
pairs, and then defining several screens (see manpage). Also you can use
Xinerama, but I personally had almost no experience with that extension,
so I cannot say anything.

And if you want to run several thin-client-likes, it would probably
require to load several X servers (but still there're problems with
config files and memory usage)
> 
> More or less what X (protocol) was designed to do, essentially, wasnt  
> it?
> 
> Anyway, the only thing that might be tricky would be keyboards. I'm not  
> sure how you could set those up (you'd basically be required to use usb  
> keyboards). Keyboards can probably be represented via the event  
> interface, but im not sure if xfree86 can do anything with that yet.
> 
> As for mouse, monitor, and video card, no problem. I'm not sure of the  
> details on how it can be done (hehe, i'd gladly research it for you if  
> you send me the hardware :). For example, you may need to create  
> multiple XF86Config files and run each xfree86 instance specifying the  
> config file to use. You might be able to even just throw all the  
> different screens into the same file.

The problem lies here: how to split several USB mice and keyboards among
several servers?


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