On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Matthew Smith wrote: > I am designing an information system which presently has two networked > PCs in a box, one driving a touch screen and the other displaying > (different) information through a window. > > The human/machine interface is Mozilla running straight on top of > XFree86, without any window manager - only the one task needs to run. > > The two machines are identical and the type (touch screen or through the > window) of display is simply determined by Mozilla's start page which, > in turn, is determined by the login user.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ describes a hack to run two X servers on one machine. By the sound of it, you don't actually need keyboard+mouse on the "window" screen. If so, there are dummy input devices you could use which might simplify things in some way. Running two X servers like this probably requires two separate graphics chips; I'd not recommend using a dual head card which uses a single graphics engine since I don't know that 2 servers can drive one chip without trampling on each other. At the risk of mentioning a brand, the Matrox G200 dual head card has two chips, so should be OK, but the G400 and G450 have a single chip, which I would expect to be more problematic. I'n not aware of any way of making two copies of a standard application run on one server but with each instance using adifferent input devices. -- 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
