On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:07:20PM +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> >>(When) Will there ever be native kernel (and maybe XFree) support for
> >>multiple independent keyboards?
> >
> >The kernel console is unlikely to ever going to have that - noone is
> >interested in changing the console subsystem.
> >
> >
> Ah, rats! :-(
You can give a try, if you're not afraid opening that can of worms.
> >The current state of input device support in the kernel, however, allows
> >any userspace program to access them independently, including keyboards.
> >
> >That means multi-user X and possibly a userspace console implementation
> >(Jon Smirl is planning one) has no barriers in the kernel input device
> Do you have an email address so that I can keep in touch with him?
[email protected]
> >implementation keeping it from proceeding.
> >
> >The problems with multiple VGA cards, etc, are much harder to solve,
> >though.
> That's a surprise - barring the keyboard issue, I thought I was close to
> getting it working on my SuSE 9.3 using 2 mice, onboard 915G graphics
> and an old TSENG Labs ET6000.
> Maybe I had further to go than I realised :-(
Some combinations work. Making it work for all is what's hard.
Btw, Aivils Stoss created a nice way to make several X instances have
separate keyboards - see the linux-console archives for the faketty
driver.
> >Many people would like that. But not many enough to make it happen, at
> >least not until now.
> Ah cool - there's hope - any pointers on how I can get a counter or
> lobby group going? :-)
Just start coding. ;) That helps most.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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