hi
(I send this same mail with a new subject; the old subject was probably not attracting the attention of the interested people) we would like to set up a cluster here and have 10 computers with 2 indipendent screens each, to allow two different people to login together indipendently in each workstation: this would be really useful, since todays PC can easily accomodate two users, and it would save a lot of money we have read the HOWTO http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ by Miguel Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and are currently studying the patch as he says: "Unfortunately, the keyboard driver is still deeply rooted at XFree86 core, it's not a separated module and access console I/O functions to read the scancodes. Each XFree86 instance would have their keyboard access halted by VT switching. " so Freitas' patch defines a new protocol for the keyboard called 'usbev'; the code also adds a '-delay' option, since it seems that starting two X can sometimes locks the system; the patch also disables alle the code's references to the console; this patch builds a different Xserver that can be used to start the second screen (using an USB keyboard and a serial mouse or USB mouse , as input) we would like to change this patch we may implement this feature: add a new command line options, lets say '-noconsole' this options sets a flag in the structure 'xf86Info' that disables all the code referring to the console swicthing as is done in patches M Freitas; the code that defines the new 'usbev' keyboard protocol is instead probably ok as it is the final goal is to elaborate a patch that may be accepted upstream Freitas' patch is only 469 lines long so it would not be a prohibitive work what do you think? we havo no experience in hacking X : any help would be greatly appreciated; our institution may even decide to hire someone fora short term contract job a. -- A Mennucc "? un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Renato Carotone) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
