Re: support for dual independent keyboards in devel kernel?

[John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>]

> > I have been doing some research on running 2 independent displays
> > off of 1 machine (ie 2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 vid cards, 2
> > monitors).. there are some hacks out there now that "sort of"
> > work.... but nothing stable and official..   
> > it's all hacks....   I have read that support for this is planned
> > for 2.5/2.6, and would like to know what progress has been done.
> > I am willing to help where I can.  I am a good C/C++ programmer,
> > but have not done any kernel work so far.
> 
>    You are talking about the linuxconsole project. Yes with alot of work 
> we got a multi-desktop system working. We even got several X servers with 
> several patches running on different desktops even tho they where working 
> out of one box. The main problem with this research was the console system 
> level of code was intertwine in each input and display driver. In 2.5.X 
> you see the moving of the console keyboards etc to the input api which can 
> function indepenedent of the console layer. You also had the same effect 
> with the new framebuffer layer. This was done to make driver writing easy 
> and to help the embedded space as well as prepare for the future 
> multi-desktop of linux. 

There was a thread some months ago, called something like 'Linux as a
minicomputer', where we discussed this kind of thing.

John.