> Just out of curiosity, what system is this that has at least 8 slots?
I found a few links from an email I sent to some people in June, 2005 ... I think 16 local users each having own monitor, keyboard, and mouse is about the most I've heard of. Of course I think Linux is still encoding major/minor number into a single 32bit number using 12 bits for major, and 20 bits for minor. Thats 4096 possibilities for major number and 1,048,576 for minor. They most likely would want you to use your own major number therefore you can have far more minor numbers than you could use at this point. http://disjunkt.com/dualhead/ This document intend to describe how I managed to have a PC with: * two different monitors plugged to ... * two different graphic-cards matching ... * two different keyboards and mice ... in order to run ... * two instances of XFree86, each one having it's own login screen, and thus having ... * two different users working on the same one and only one PC box at a time. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/ This HOWTO explains one of the ways to get a working, multiple, local X user-capable PC system for up to 16 users. It is based on using a modified Linux kernel with support for multiple independent users . http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/ Backstreet Ruby is a Linux kernel patch based on the linuxconsole.sourceforge.net project. My patch applies cleanly to 2.6.9. It will allow you to run two or more independ consoles with independ keyboards and mice. During the current project status it allows for two or more simultaneous X servers to be run with independ keyboards and mice. -- http://dmoz.org/profiles/pollei.html http://sourceforge.net/users/stephen_pollei/ http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=2455954990164098214 http://stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net/ _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
