Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-02-16 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Miroslav Halas schrieb: > Hello Tomasz, > > I wanted to thank you for awesome howto on the multiterminal. I have > found it through the xorg mailing list and it worked like a charm. I am > on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and I have tried 3 solutions, userful, mdm and your > howto and I like the howto the

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:08:23PM -0800, Miro Halas wrote: > Hello Tomasz, > > I wanted to thank you for awesome howto on the multiterminal. I have > found it through the xorg mailing list and it worked like a charm. I am > on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and I have tried 3 solutions, userful, mdm and you

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-02-08 Thread Miro Halas
Hello Tomasz, I wanted to thank you for awesome howto on the multiterminal. I have found it through the xorg mailing list and it worked like a charm. I am on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and I have tried 3 solutions, userful, mdm and your howto and I like the howto the best. I am using Nvidia GForce2 MX (

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tiago Vignatti schrieb: > okay, Tomasz. I updated our wiki [0]. Please take a look there and see > if it's reasonable and fits with your ideas. > > BTW, you didn't give credits and/or referenced anyone in your page. > > > [0] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat Right. I

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-08 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Peter Hutterer escreveu: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:05:26AM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> 3) http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/?proj_id=multiseat&menu_id=1 - as big fat >> words say, "DONT TRY THIS!", so let's just not go there. >> >> >> 4) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-08 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Tomasz Chmielewski escreveu: > Tiago Vignatti schrieb: >> Tomasz Chmielewski escreveu: >>> BTW, I tried the multiseat live CD from >>> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Live-CD >>> >>> I like its hardware detection (press F1, left mouse to activate this >>> screen). >> >> Indeed, it's

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:05:26AM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > 3) http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/?proj_id=multiseat&menu_id=1 - as big fat > words say, "DONT TRY THIS!", so let's just not go there. > > > 4) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/ - "very old > documentation. D

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > From: Tomasz Chmielewski > Subject: Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)? > To: "Tiago Vignatti" > Cc: gm...@colin.guthr.ie, dan...@fooishbar.org, xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > Date: Tuesda

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-05 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tiago Vignatti schrieb: > Tomasz Chmielewski escreveu: >> BTW, I tried the multiseat live CD from >> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Live-CD >> >> I like its hardware detection (press F1, left mouse to activate this >> screen). > > Indeed, it's nice. > > Now a question: is there a

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-05 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Tomasz Chmielewski escreveu: > BTW, I tried the multiseat live CD from > http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Live-CD > > I like its hardware detection (press F1, left mouse to activate this > screen). Indeed, it's nice. Now a question: is there a reason to keep your howto alive in the

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-05 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tiago Vignatti schrieb: > Peter Hutterer escreveu: >> I don't know what other people's view on this is but I'd certainly >> appreciate >> it if you could transcribe this to the xorg wiki. It seems the >> question of >> multi-seat comes up quite frequently and having a central location to >> poin

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-04 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Peter Hutterer escreveu: > I don't know what other people's view on this is but I'd certainly appreciate > it if you could transcribe this to the xorg wiki. It seems the question of > multi-seat comes up quite frequently and having a central location to point > people at would be helpful. > > Alte

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-04 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:12:58PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Mader, Alexander (N-MSR) schrieb: > > Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: > >> Does anyone know any up-to-date HOWTO for setting up multihead / dual > >> input - two graphics cards running on one PC, with two local users, > >> with two

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2009-01-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Mader, Alexander (N-MSR) schrieb: > Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: >> Does anyone know any up-to-date HOWTO for setting up multihead / dual >> input - two graphics cards running on one PC, with two local users, >> with two keyboards, running separate X sessions? >> What I'm finding in the internet

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-30 Thread Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)
Hugo Vanwoerkom schrieb: I run such a 2-seater under Debian Sid. 2 cards/monitors/keyboards/mice/servers. But the recent xorg (1:7.3+10) gives an error message: Hello, perhaps an update would help as the current xorg for sid is 1:7.3+17[1]. Furthermore I am running a multi seat environment

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I run such a 2-seater under Debian Sid. 2 cards/monitors/keyboards/mice/servers. But the recent xorg (1:7.3+10) gives an error message: Bus types other than PCI not yet isolable Yet I did it for years with older versions (1:7.2-5) Anyone shed light on the appearance of that message? Hu

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Steven J Newbury wrote: >> I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with >> respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie >> specific devices to specific displays - unless I'm missing somethi

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Steven J Newbury
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 07:38 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 07:24:38 am Steven J Newbury wrote: > > > > > I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with > > respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie > > specific devices to spec

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 07:24:38 am Steven J Newbury wrote: > > I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with > respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie > specific devices to specific displays - unless I'm missing something? Multiseat is avail

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Steven J Newbury wrote: > I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with > respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie > specific devices to specific displays - unless I'm missing something? This is probably Con

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Steven J Newbury
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 15:07 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > I would say it is more of an issue that many tasks based on > open-source software can be achieved, it just requires the person(s) > to lead the effort. > Apart from the core functionality/programming that takes place in > Xorg, it's an i

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
I would say it is more of an issue that many tasks based on open-source software can be achieved, it just requires the person(s) to lead the effort. Apart from the core functionality/programming that takes place in Xorg, it's an issue of packaging and making it easy for the users to install and use

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Simos Xenitellis schrieb: > Do a search for "multiseat". I think it shows more results. > I have not tried this, so it's good to post a summary on the list once > you have some results. It still wonders a bit why i.e. Linux distributors still don't offer an easy to use tool for setting up a multi

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-08 Thread Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: Does anyone know any up-to-date HOWTO for setting up multihead / dual input - two graphics cards running on one PC, with two local users, with two keyboards, running separate X sessions? Hello, for my set-up I found help with the following sites: http://blog.chris

multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-08 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Hi, Does anyone know any up-to-date HOWTO for setting up multihead / dual input - two graphics cards running on one PC, with two local users, with two keyboards, running separate X sessions? What I'm finding in the internet are either old / XFree based documents, mostly incomplete etc. -- T