-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 May 2002 9:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Xperts, > > how hard would it be to add more keyboards and mice to XFree, each > delivering events to a different screen, thus enabling a full local > multiuser setup? Is there any reason why this couldn't be implemented?
This question has come up every month or so as far back as I can remember. I even joined this mailing list to ask this very question... There are tons of threads on it. To do a really quick, probably incorrect summary: 1) You can't have to VT's being displayed at once. This means you can't run and see two seperate X sessions on two monitors. This is a limitation of the linux kernel - and as far back as I can remember ppl have said "someone is working on it" but I wouldn't hold your breath... 2) You could not go through the kernel and instead attempt to access the video card manually or through the frame buffer or something smart - and some has done this, and posted various patches.. although that still only allows a max of two heads. 3) You could use something like Xinerama (sp?) to have one desktop but over multiple monitors. 4) You can have more than one mouse, but currently you can't have more than one cursor on a particular X server. I think this is because of a limitation in the actual X protocol - if so, don't expect this to be fixed any time soon either. 5) It is hard getting many monitors on a machine simply because the cables aren't that long! The longer you make the cable, the worse the image gets on the monitor. I think you can get round this by using LCD screens - but can't remember for sure. 6) A nicer way of doing all of this is simply to have lots of very cheap nasty machines with nothing but a mobo, CPU, ethernet card and monitor - then get one big server to control them all. See the linux terminal server project. Hmm, I probably missed something :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE87QJFoRvfZQkd7qoRAiR0AKCCy+KisDaaI5gggqgsb2oxFMGl8gCeKdLv u3Yc3QJNAfJrmjhDmMu+1k8= =Sbmm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
