From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@freemail.hu>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6?
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:12:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD98665.2030402@freemail.hu> (raw)
Hi,
is there a way to assign different keyboards to different vcs?
I would like to set up a machine that has 2 keyboards, 2 mice and
2 videocards and run XFree-4.x on both heads. The videocard/monitor and
mouse settings are easy to set up but I cannot find a device setting
for the keyboard in man XF86Config. How can I do it with mainline kernels?
After some googleing I found something called "backstreet ruby"
http://startx.times.lv/eng-faq.html
This gave me this info (howto in a nutshell):
1. Boot with kernel option "dumbcon=N" to activate N dummy console.
2. cat /proc/bus/input/devices gives the input devices, search for keyboard
entries.
3. To assign a keyboard to a VT, feed the keyboard Phys= entry into
a VT, e.g. echo "isa0060/serio0/input0" > /proc/bus/console/00/keyboard
4. Start the X server on the proper VT.
The functionality can be found at linuxconsole.sourceforge.net.
Will this be included into mainline near term? Say 2.6.[12]?
The ruby-2.6 is against 2.6.0-test9 so it's almost uptodate.
--
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi
---------------------
What did Hussein say about his knife?
One in Bush worth two in the hand.
next reply other threads:[~2003-12-12 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-12 9:12 Boszormenyi Zoltan [this message]
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2003-12-12 10:03 Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6? Svetoslav Slavtchev
[not found] <fa.da53dsa.dho216@ifi.uio.no>
2003-12-12 21:43 ` William Park
2003-12-13 13:14 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-13 21:12 ` William Park
2003-12-15 12:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-15 20:38 ` William Park
2003-12-15 17:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-12 22:27 Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-12 22:45 ` William Park
2003-12-12 23:09 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-12 23:46 ` William Park
2003-12-13 1:05 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-12-13 10:20 ` John Bradford
2003-12-13 10:28 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
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