From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264520AbTLLJML (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:12:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264522AbTLLJML (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:12:11 -0500 Received: from [80.98.160.78] ([80.98.160.78]:13712 "EHLO zoli.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264520AbTLLJMI (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:12:08 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD98665.2030402@freemail.hu> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:12:05 +0100 From: Boszormenyi Zoltan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu-HU; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: hu, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.