On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:54:07PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > 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. XF4.0 does support multiple video cards and so does fbcon to
> a degree (It has problems).
I have this setup going right now. I've got 4 monitors and 2 keyboards,
one of which is usb. My usb keyboard hooks to a XGGI session of it's on
on one screen, and i hog the other 3 monitors. (now only if my window
manager (sawfish), would use the extra 2 ;) note that it only works for
X, since the multi-keyboards don't have kernel support.
I'm using 2.4.0-test9. (hmm, i bet there's something better by now ;)
> > be possible to have one computer on which different people can work on
> > simultaneously. The problem are the mulitple keyboards.
>
> 2.5.X you will :-) I already have a experimental kernel running with
> mutiple VTs.
>
> > How can I assign them
> > to a X server? I can't image a way to do this with a xfree86 server.
>
> Nope not with XFree86.
>
> > Is
> > this possible with Xggi (and may be a kernel patch from the ggi project)?
no patch necicary. just use /dev/fb and /dev/event as you say.
> 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.
nope, i've got it already running. it's not pretty (won't work with XDM, you
need to launch individual scripts for each terminal), but it's running.
The only problem that i've got is that XGGI isn't stable, i get:
Terminating on signal 11
xinit: connection to X server lost.
whenever i turn my back on my machine. *never* when i'm using the machine.
I've got a new therory that it's X number of hours after i last use the
machine that it automatically crashes. I'm using debian xserver-ggi
1.6.1-2.1. Someone said recently that XGGI 1.6.1 was less stable for them
for a month. anything special that you do? (mine crashes reliably every
night)
(note: i also have hardware problems, in that my BIOS won't boot with one of
my USB keyboards plugged in)
Corey
