On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:13:07AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Ok, sounds good so far :)
> I'm using 2.4.0-test9. (hmm, i bet there's something better by now ;)
2.4.0-test11-pre7 seems to be the latest kernel (finger @zeus.kernel.org)
> > > 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.
/dev/event is avaible in 2.4 without a patch?! cool! :)
I just upgraded from 2.0 to 2.2...
> > 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:
> [snip]
How do users log in? You said the VTs nor XDM do work.
-Jade.
