Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:43:31 +0100 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: linux as a minicomputer ? |
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* John P. Looney (john@antefacto.com) wrote: > Sorry if this isn't the place for this question, but it's something that > came up in general office talk today. > > Many many moons ago, the GGI project promised us the ability to buy a > four-processor box, four PCI video cards, four USB mice & keyboards, and > let four people use that machine at once, with benefits all around.
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> Are there any plans to bring this sort of functionality to Linux 2.6 ? As > I remember, some of the problems were that the GGI code was never going to > get into Linux proper, and enumeration of multiple keyboards and mice, but > I would have thought that was there a need, these problems would have been > fixed by now.
I'm not sure, but I don't think any code is needed if you run X. Bung four USB mice, four USB keyboards in and four video cards. Write a separate X config for each one specifying which PCI card should be used and which mouse/keyboard device should be used. Now start an X server for each one.
(Fun should form in the efforts to figure out which mouse is associated with which keyboard and with which video output).
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