James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Since Linux supports multiple keyboards, mice and graphic cards it should
> ^^^^^^^^ Not!!!
>
> Their is no multiple keybaord support in XFree86 4.0, 3.3.X or in the
> linux kernel.
The linux kernel support multiple keyboards just fine, via the
/dev/event interface. Only problem is that afaik *all* keyboard
events are routed to the Linux console, so you can't use the
normal console or a PS2/AT keyboard, but have to use USB-keyboards
only (or IR-keyboards like the one here ;-) if you want different
users using the keyboards.
> XF4.0 does support multiple video cards and so does fbcon to
> a degree (It has problems).
Major problems even...
> > Is
> > this possible with Xggi (and may be a kernel patch from the ggi project)?
>
> Since ggi uses both the /dev/event and /dev/fb interface then yes it is
> very possible to support many users. Note this requires some big changes
> to the X server.
It doesn't require any changes to XGGI. It might however be hard to
make it work without a somewhat sane fbcon, which we won't see until
Linux 2.5.
//Marcus
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