Marvin; This is sort of where I'm going with this, but with a twist. You have configured it to combine multiple displays into a single X session. I want to run a separate X server for each display and attach additional keyboards/mice so each monitor/keyboard/mouse can provide separate sessions for multiple users.
By default, the Linux kernel combines all PS/2 and USB keyboard input into a single stream for the console. The "Ruby" kernel extention keeps the signals separate and allows each to be mapped to a unique X server. It is detailed here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/about_bruby.html The combination of LTSP + Ruby would enable a single client to support as many as 16 users and dramatically lower the per-seat user cost. Cost has been a nusiance, since the cost of new equipment for an LTSP terminal is greater than an entry-level Dell PC (one client pointed this out). I talk about "Low TCO", but lower hardware cost is a strong argument. I'd like to have that argument on my side ;-) Tom
Hello Tom, I have a LTSP 4.1.1 setup but I don't know if it has a "Ruby Kernel" as what you are looking for but all my thin clients are running with a dual head/monitor, one is a 15' and the other one is a 17' monitor. The 17' monitor was configured to have a rotated clockwise screen orientation so that it will give me a longer vertical screen and which will fit an A4 paper on the screen without scrolling it up and down. I'm just using an S3 Savage4 PCI video card for the 15' monitor and NVidia GeForce2 AGP video card for the 17' monitor. Marvin
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