Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:03:57 +0100 (MET) | From | "Svetoslav Slavtchev" <> | Subject | Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6? |
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Hi,
zb == Zoltán Böszörményi < zb > 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? </ zb >
you can not do it with mainline kernel
you need both patched kernel and XFree, although the second might be skiped in case a similar functionality added by the kernel patch is used
< zb > After some googleing I found something called "backstreet ruby" http://startx.times.lv/eng-faq.html </ zb >
check the entire documentation there and visit the links section -> you'll get the big picture
for 2.6 most info is still on the linuxconsole ml archive
< zb > This gave me this info (howto in a nutshell):
1. Boot with kernel option "dumbcon=N" to activate N dummy console. </ zb >
mostly undocumented, but dumbcon= ... is not obligatory for 2.6, you can also use multiple independent framebuffer consoles instead, which is still work in progress
< zb > 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. </ zb > you can configure hotplug to do this for you and let a display manager start X for you, but i'm not sure how well will this work with multiple framebuffer consoles
< zb > 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. </ zb >
the ruby tree works with current 2.6 too multiple framebuffer console is not yet polished and the framebuffer drivers in vanilla 2.6 aren't in very good shape too
i really doubt it will be included in the near term, i think it will be first merged in 2.7 (hopefully right after it opens) and then it will be "backported" to 2.6, may be arround 2.6.1[0-9]
best,
svetljo
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