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From: Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>
To: Svetoslav Slavtchev <svetljo@gmx.de>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Aivils Stoss <aivils@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: multiple independent keyboard kernel support
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:06:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43170AF0.7060703@geograph.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3531.1125581750@www27.gmx.net>

Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:

>Hi,
>sorry for replying in this way, but i'm not subscribed
>to lkml, and please do CC me
>
>ruby is still maintained and the list is pretty active
>although that is mostly volunteer work from Aivils
>  
>
Thats good. Googling for it I found too many hits, and the ones I looked 
at were all older than Dec 2003.

>it's running pretty stable on x86 and x86_64
>and there are patches almost all recent 2.6 kernels (upto 2.6.12)
>  
>
excellent - I'm running 2.6.11-21.8 (SuSE 9.3)

>and IIRC another person is maintaing the backport to linux-2.4
>
>please check out this site : http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/
>  
>
Have bookmarked it - thanks.

>best,
>
>svetljo
>
>PS.
>from user experiances, i doubt you'll be able to get it
>running with onboard graphic or with "fake" multihead card
>  
>
Not an issue - I intend to use onboard and 2 PCI (nvidia FX5200 based) 
cards. (or maybe even 2 PCIExpress in discreet mode on a mobo with 2 
slots. - dont know yet....)

>/* under "fake" i do understand almost all cards on the market
> that are dualhead, and under "real" Matrox's G200/G450 MMS
> which do have 4 real chips on it */
>  
>
Yes - I understand this too and I have also noted that this doesn't 
work. ie: you *need* seperate graphics controllers.

Cheers & many thanks for the pointers,
Zoltan


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 13:35 multiple independent keyboard kernel support Svetoslav Slavtchev
2005-09-01 14:06 ` Zoltan Szecsei [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-01 11:28 Zoltan Szecsei
2005-09-01 12:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-01 13:07   ` Zoltan Szecsei
2005-09-01 13:24     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-01 14:48       ` Martin Mares
2005-09-01 16:38         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-11 22:36         ` Helge Hafting
2005-09-12 16:03           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-09-12 20:47             ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-13 16:20               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-09-11 22:34 ` Helge Hafting
2005-09-12  7:01   ` Zoltan Szecsei
2005-10-19 16:01   ` Zoltan Szecsei
2005-10-19 19:23     ` Helge Hafting

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