On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:37, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Thursday 09 October 2003 01:01, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > > Just as advice, look for old Dell Desktops. I own one, I think G > > something, with a 233 CPU, they are even fast enough for Winblows 98 > > (I don't use it, so I don't matter). Really low noise, onboard NIC > > (with PXE 0.9, which I didn't get to work, but there's always > > etherboot floppies). Should be the right thing to pop a 15" monitor > > (or 17") onto. > > Yeah, that sounds like a nice box for it. > > > Nope. AFAIK - never done myself - you can have two separate running X > > servers on one machine, just tell each which graphics card to use, > > tell the one to use input mouse/kbd ps/2, the other one usb, > > rock'n'roll. There were even some people designing thin clients for > > two stations (two PCI graphics boards in a 486, or so, long ago :-) > > Mmmm, yeah, that's an idea, to tell a second X server to use the other > head on the graphics card.... Anybody done that...? > > > > Since I've never heard about any such solutions, the next thought > > > is to buy a PCI card where I could connect the monitor, keyboard > > > and mouse. I guess this implies a PCI card with a CPU, GPU and PS/2 > > > interfaces, RAM slots, etc. > > Another idea, but are there really things like that? > > Hehe, I haven't found any for sure.... > > > Give it a try with the second graphics adapter. Results would be > > interesting. > > Yup! I think I'll give it a try. But I would certainly need a hand, I'm > rather a newbie (eh, that is, I used Linux for the first time in 1995, > and a UNIX user since 1994, hardly looked at Windows boxes after the > first half year on UNIX, but I'm very new to maintaining my own stuff). > Would this list be the right place to ask for assistance, or can anybody > suggest other lists? > > Cheers, > > Kjetil Kjetil While you are welcome to the list but if the situation is more concerned with Linux I am sure a little time on google and you would be able to find a linux help list nearer you??!! -- Sudev Barar
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