On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > I would dearly love to see this working. > > > > Thoughts? > > well, I've done some more research, and it turns out that it's already > been done. > > The linuxconsole project (linuxconsole.sourceforge.org) has done this, and > they've got a back-patch for kernel 2.4.19 and XFree86 4.2.0. However, I > can't download either of them...possibly because of being in New Zealand > or something. I dunno. > > What they did is extend the Linux console system so that all the virtual > terminals use different keyboards. You just start multiple instances of X > on whichever virtual terminal corresponds to the keyboard you want. I've > heard it's pretty stable.
Yes, the new linux console system has been planned to be added to 2.5 or 2.6 for some time now. However will it let you have multiple keyboards on one terminal etc? > > If anyone manages to download the 2.4.19 patch and the X patch, can they > email them to me, or possibly mirror the patches somewhere I'd be forever > grateful. It's the ruby patch at: > > http://startx.times.lv/ > > tim > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
