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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
