Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: support for dual independent keyboards in devel kernel? | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:48:30 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > I have been doing some research on running 2 independent displays > > off of 1 machine (ie 2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 vid cards, 2 > > monitors).. there are some hacks out there now that "sort of" > > work.... but nothing stable and official.. > > it's all hacks.... I have read that support for this is planned > > for 2.5/2.6, and would like to know what progress has been done. > > I am willing to help where I can. I am a good C/C++ programmer, > > but have not done any kernel work so far. > > You are talking about the linuxconsole project. Yes with alot of work > we got a multi-desktop system working. We even got several X servers with > several patches running on different desktops even tho they where working > out of one box. The main problem with this research was the console system > level of code was intertwine in each input and display driver. In 2.5.X > you see the moving of the console keyboards etc to the input api which can > function indepenedent of the console layer. You also had the same effect > with the new framebuffer layer. This was done to make driver writing easy > and to help the embedded space as well as prepare for the future > multi-desktop of linux.
There was a thread some months ago, called something like 'Linux as a minicomputer', where we discussed this kind of thing.
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