Re: two workstations, one tower

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

Multi-X sessions on a 486 might be a bit slow.  Have you
considered a Wyse terminal?  It would be a separate machine
and keyboard.  You could run a lot of those on a 486.  eBay
might have some refurb'd Wyse 60's cheaper than an extra
video card.  I only paid $150 for mine and that was 6 years
ago.

--- Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 18:10, Brandon Adams wrote:
> > I was wondering if it is viable to have two monitors
> using two different > video cards use different mice and
> keyboards but still all be wired through > the same
> tower. I've done a little reading on the subject and I
> think that > by using two different config files for X I
> could get this done but I'm not > quite sure. Anybody
> have any experience at this?
> 
> At the present time, I'm not sure it can be done.
> 
> The main problem is the keyboard.  On Linux, the keyboard
> isn't really a
> device in the traditional sense; it's just "there",
> always attached to
> the console.  XFree86 on Linux perpetuates this view of
> the keyboard;
> there is just one keyboard device.  This used to be all
> you needed back
> in the day when PS/2 keyboards were all you had, and you
> could only have
> one.
> 
> USB keyboard support is currently handled through a bit
> of a hack; when
> a USB keyboard event comes in, an equivalent "regular
> keyboard" event is
> manufactured and fired through the normal keyboard
> driver, as if you had
> just typed on the PS/2 keyboard.  This is accomplished
> with the
> "keybdev" kernel module.  If you don't load keybdev, your
> USB keyboard
> won't work as a console keyboard, but you can read
> keyboard events
> through /dev/input/eventX.
> 
> Long-term, work is in progress to make all consoles use
> /dev/input/eventX, making it possible to do multi-head
> with keyboard
> support.  You can find out more about this at
> linuxconsole.sourceforge.net.
> 
> In the meantime, I suspect that getting your 486 fixed
> and using it as
> an X terminal would be a better way to get
> "multi-X-terminal" stuff
> working on your box.  There are tutorials available for
> building a
> diskless X terminal, so if your disk is the problem, you
> can work around
> it.
> 
> Alternately, if you're not really interested in "two
> people working on
> the same box at the same time" stuff, Xinerama might be
> what you're
> looking for.  This way, you can drive both video cards in
> the same X
> session, and have that much more screen real estate for
> your session.
> 
> 
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