On Thu, 30 May 2002, res0i1oz wrote: > I am not sure whether the idea is new or not (probably old). > > A lot of people (include me) are interested in multihead for > whatever reason. Each Xwindow is consisted of a moniter (screen), a > keyboard, and a mouse. For a multihead, for an example, dualhead, > system, we have to connect two monitors, two keyboards and two > mouses. Two monitors are simples, using two video cards or one card > with two output, but two mouses and two keyboards become a > problem. Sure, we can use usb keyboard or mouse today. But why not > connect the mouse and keyboard to monitor, and let monitor connect > to computer? I am not sure whether there is such monitor already. I > am just don't know: we have a brilliant software--Xwindow (monitor, > keyboard, mouse), why no related hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse > TOGETHER). If there is such hardware, it will be easy to build > multihead.
It is a rather old web page, but http://www.sharedware-encs.de/ seems to have a graphics card with a keyboard and a mouse socket, but it is an ISA card, not PCI. I've never heard of an XFree86 driver for it. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
