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SubjectRe: multiple independent keyboard kernel support
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > Btw, Aivils Stoss created a nice way to make several X instances have
> > separate keyboards - see the linux-console archives for the faketty
> > driver.
>
> I haven't looked recently, but when I tried that several years ago,
> the biggest problem was to make two simultaneously running X servers
> not switch off each other's video card I/O ports off :)

That is still the biggest issue. Some modern cards don't need the legacy
I/O for working, however.

> All other things looked solvable with a reasonably small effort.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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