Re: multi-head + multi-keyboard & mice?

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:25:50 +0100


On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 11:02:49PM -0500, David L. Parsley wrote:

> I'm trying to make high-performance & low cost X terminals from PC
> hardware. These will be closely spaced, so multiple X terms on a single
> motherboard is fine. Recent MB's have 2 ps/2 ports & 2 nine-pin serial; I
> checked and the ps/2 aux driver appears to be in the same source file as
> the pc keyboard driver... Since multi-head X is already possible with,
> for instance, some Matrox video cards, has anyone been able to attach 2
> kb + 2 mice and service 2 users?
> I mean hell, this _is_ Linux...

Yes, I'm currently working on this. Furthermore there was another attempt
(working, as far as I know, though not offering full multikey/multihead
combination) by Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>. If you like, I can
send you his patches. If you can wait a little (few weeks), my drivers
should be ready by that time.

Vojtech

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