Re: multiple independent keyboard kernel support

[Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>]

Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:

> Hi,
> sorry for replying in this way, but i'm not subscribed
> to lkml, and please do CC me
>
> ruby is still maintained and the list is pretty active
> although that is mostly volunteer work from Aivils
>  
Thats good. Googling for it I found too many hits, and the ones I looked 
at were all older than Dec 2003.

> it's running pretty stable on x86 and x86_64
> and there are patches almost all recent 2.6 kernels (upto 2.6.12)
>  
excellent - I'm running 2.6.11-21.8 (SuSE 9.3)

> and IIRC another person is maintaing the backport to linux-2.4
>
> please check out this site : http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/
>  
Have bookmarked it - thanks.

> best,
>
> svetljo
>
> PS.
> from user experiances, i doubt you'll be able to get it
> running with onboard graphic or with "fake" multihead card
>  
Not an issue - I intend to use onboard and 2 PCI (nvidia FX5200 based) 
cards. (or maybe even 2 PCIExpress in discreet mode on a mobo with 2 
slots. - dont know yet....)

> /* under "fake" i do understand almost all cards on the market
> that are dualhead, and under "real" Matrox's G200/G450 MMS
> which do have 4 real chips on it */
>  
Yes - I understand this too and I have also noted that this doesn't 
work. ie: you *need* seperate graphics controllers.

Cheers & many thanks for the pointers,
Zoltan


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