Re: linux as a minicomputer ?

From: Rene Rebe (rene.rebe@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 12:59:21 EST


On: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:49:42 +0000,
    "John P. Looney" <john@antefacto.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik mentioned:
> > > I'd presumed this was
> > > the whole point of the busid spec in the config file.
> > No, it's for running one Xserver on multiple displays at once only.
> > Sad, ain't it?
>
> Very sad. Nice to know it's not really the kernel's fault.

It IS the kernel's fault, because only one VT can be active. The
kernel VT stuff needs to be redesigned to hadle multiple VT at the
same time ...

> Is it possible to say "Any mice plugged in to this port is
> /dev/input/mouse3" etc. so that if someone plugged out your mouse, plugged
> in another into a different port, and you plugged yours back in, that they
> wouldn't renumberate ?
>
> Kate

k33p h4ck1n6
  René

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