2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 monitors with 1 PC; possible?

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Sat Oct 15 07:45:30 PDT 2005


John Oxley wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:53:54PM -0700, Micah wrote:
> 
>>Rob wrote:
>>
>>>>>xorg supports dual-head, which could be
>>>>>a starting point.
>>>>
>>>>crw-------  1 root  wheel    3,  63 Sep 11 15:52
>>>>/dev/kbd0
>>>>crw-------  1 root  wheel    3, 195 Sep 11 15:52
>>>>/dev/kbd1
>>>>crw-------  1 root  wheel    3,  31 Sep 11 15:52
>>>>/dev/sysmouse
>>>>
>>
>>Check out 
>>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=+site:lists.freebsd.org+freebsd+multiple+keyboards
>>A few minutes of reading suggests:
>>FreeBSD recognizes multiple keyboards.
>>Console can only accept input from one keyboard at a time.
>>You can read input from the keyboard that is not in use.
>>Setting up X may be tricky.
> 
> 
> The tricky part of X will be to get one server to run on monitor A and
> another to run on monitor B.
> 
> You need to create two xorg.conf (or similar for XFree86) files, and
> modify the "InputDevice" sections for the CorePointer and CoreKeyboard
> sections for the second X server.
> 
> The mouse one should be easy
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
> just change that line.  I presume the Keyboard section will have
> something similar in it.
> 
> I have no idea how you'd handle the two monitors though.
> 
> -John
> 

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Later,
Micah


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