> > Don't forget about where printk goes to. Should it goe to every VT or just
> > one? As for SysRq do users want the option to disable for everyone, have
> > it work for one VT or allow it for everyone? Do we want a all or nothing
> > policy?
>
> It is actually very easy. Just one keyboard, an
Hi!
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:00:05AM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > > On the console level their are complex issues as well. Consider a
> > > system with 4 VTs attached to one machine. What if one person pressed
> > > Ctrl-Alt-Del. Anyone can bring the system down when multiple people
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:17:29PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > > On the console level their are complex issues as well. Consider a
> > > system with 4 VTs attached to one machine. What if one person pressed
> > > Ctrl-Alt-Del. Anyone can bring the system down when multiple people depend
>
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Adam Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:00:05AM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > On the console level their are complex issues as well. Consider a
> > system with 4 VTs attached to one machine. What if one person pressed
> > Ctrl-Alt-Del. Anyone can bring the syst
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:00:05AM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> On the console level their are complex issues as well. Consider a
> system with 4 VTs attached to one machine. What if one person pressed
> Ctrl-Alt-Del. Anyone can bring the system down when multiple people depend
> on it.
That
> Im using 2.2.18pre with XFree 4.0 , AGP, DRM and a USB keyboard and mouse.
> It all works. One keyboard not multiple tho.
>
> They dont seem to support the automatic change of keyboard mapping with the
> USB events though
I see they use their own drives and don't use the /dev/event interface
> Points taken. Given that I withdraw the need for console support and / or
> used two seperate video cards, does it make it more feasible?
IMNSHO X servers should move as far away from dependency on /dev/ttyX as
it can do. The X server should use /dev/event, /dev/fb, and /dev/drm.
You can't to
> XFree86 can use multiple keybaords. I don't think XF4.0 still supports USB
> keyboards. Give them another 6 months or a year. By then they should
Im using 2.2.18pre with XFree 4.0 , AGP, DRM and a USB keyboard and mouse.
It all works. One keyboard not multiple tho.
They dont seem to support th
> > Is it / will it be possible to run multiple, or at least two keyboards
> before the new linux console code in 2.5?
> It is a whole lot more complex than that.
> [snip]
> Consider a multihead enviroment with 2 users. Each VT is in
> console mode. One starts the X server. Automatically X wan
> Is it / will it be possible to run multiple, or at least two keyboards
> before the new linux console code in 2.5?
XFree86 can use multiple keybaords. I don't think XF4.0 still supports USB
keyboards. Give them another 6 months or a year. By then they should
support them. As for the console sy
Is it / will it be possible to run multiple, or at least two keyboards
before the new linux console code in 2.5?
What we would like to do is to run multiple user sessions off a single
machine. Using either Dualhead graphics cards, or simply using two
graphics cards, the display is not a problem (
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