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| Peter Billam... |
 Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:41 pm |
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Greetings. Given a PC with two video outlets, is it possible to
plug two keyboards in (e.g. 2 usb keyboards) and associate each
keyboard with its particular screen in such a way that two users
can log in ?
Regards, Peter
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Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html |
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| ray... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:13 am |
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:41:08 +0000, Peter Billam wrote:
Quote: Greetings. Given a PC with two video outlets, is it possible to plug
two keyboards in (e.g. 2 usb keyboards) and associate each keyboard with
its particular screen in such a way that two users can log in ?
Regards, Peter
We have a Userful station at the local library - four seats hosted from
one tower. See userful.ca - I believe you can dowload the software. |
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| Dale Dellutri... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:20 pm |
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On 12 Jun 2009 03:41:08 GMT, Peter Billam <peter at (no spam) www.pjb.com.au> wrote:
Quote: Greetings. Given a PC with two video outlets, is it possible to
plug two keyboards in (e.g. 2 usb keyboards) and associate each
keyboard with its particular screen in such a way that two users
can log in ?
Here's an article about doing six of them at once:
http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html
Note the comments under "Problems:" near the end of the
article.
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Dale Dellutri <ddelQQQlutr at (no spam) panQQQix.com> (lose the Q's) |
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| Peter Billam... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:19 pm |
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ray wrote:
Quote: See userful.ca - I believe you can dowload the software.
Looks like you can download a 2-user version...
http://www2.userful.com/products/downloads/free-2-user
(Haven't done this yet)
On 2009-06-13, Dale Dellutri <ddelQQQlutr at (no spam) panQQQix.com> wrote:
Excellent link  Also linked to from there:
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html
The problem ("While the system worked very well, it was extremely
unstable. In particular, we got a kernel oops fairly often when we
logged out.") looks like it might be intractable, since they tried
fvwm and xdm as well as gnome. Their approach (xorg.conf and
[gx]dm.conf) should port to *BSD too, so that might also be worth
a try... I mean, just as an experiment, of course ...
It also raises the related off-topic question about logging in
multiuser at the getty level. Getty, and AKAICS the tty driver
assume a bidirectional /dev/ttyXX device, so I'm also trying to
work out what pairs off kbds and screens into /dev/ttyXX devices.
Hoping to rediscover multiuser computing, Regards, Peter
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