Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes: : Well, multiple mice were never an issue, but the keyboard was. I had : done some thinking about a serial keyboard, but mainly to get away : from the stupid layouts of PC keyboards. Ah, yes. http://www.village.org/~imp/newtkb-1.0.tar.gz... War

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 0:51:50 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes: >> I had a PC with two graphics cards long before that. It was >> relatively common to have a machine with both CGA and MDA, and there >> were some debuggers which would handle bo

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes: : I had a PC with two graphics cards long before that. It was : relatively common to have a machine with both CGA and MDA, and there : were some debuggers which would handle both (debug a full-screen : application with the debug output on the othe

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 0:35:07 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes: >> Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of >> a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports >> collection) you can allow different pe

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes: : Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of : a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports : collection) you can allow different people access to the same server. In 1990 I shared a Solbourne workstati

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: : :Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of :a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports :collection) you can allow different people access to the same server. I'd think that a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 8 October 2000 at 10:43:34 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Eoin Lawless wrote: >> >> I've just got a dual head system with a matrox g400 working. However, >> what I would really like to have is a dual console system - so that >> two people could use it simultaneously. Has anyone tried that,

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread Eoin Lawless
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:34AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Maybe it would be possible to kludge something together using PS/2 mouse > and keyboard for one and USB mouse and keyboard for the other. I don't > think there is anything available "out of the box" for this, though. > Yes, my plan w

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-08 Thread Warner Losh
One might also be able hack the various universal port replicators to allow one to have multiple heads. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-08 Thread Kris Kirby
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > Eoin Lawless wrote: > > > > I've just got a dual head system with a matrox g400 working. However, > > what I would really like to have is a dual console system - so that > > two people could use it simultaneously. Has anyone tried that, or > > know if it i

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-08 Thread Greg Black
Wes Peters writes: > Maybe it would be possible to kludge something together using PS/2 mouse > and keyboard for one and USB mouse and keyboard for the other. This raises a question of mine: if you have a mouse that can be plugged into either USB or PS/2 ports, is one "better" than the other (un

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-08 Thread Wes Peters
Eoin Lawless wrote: > > I've just got a dual head system with a matrox g400 working. However, > what I would really like to have is a dual console system - so that > two people could use it simultaneously. Has anyone tried that, or > know if it is possible? Maybe it would be possible to kludge s

dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-08 Thread Eoin Lawless
I've just got a dual head system with a matrox g400 working. However, what I would really like to have is a dual console system - so that two people could use it simultaneously. Has anyone tried that, or know if it is possible? Eoin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr