Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:36:19 +0200
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: multiple independent keyboard kernel support
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > Btw, Aivils Stoss created a nice way to make several X instances have
> > separate keyboards - see the linux-console archives for the faketty
> > driver.
> 
> I haven't looked recently, but when I tried that several years ago,
> the biggest problem was to make two simultaneously running X servers
> not switch off each other's video card I/O ports off :)
> 
Look again.  X config files now have "IsolateDevice" and "BusID"
to deal with this.  At least iff you get your X from ubuntu or
debian testing . . .

> All other things looked solvable with a reasonably small effort.

It works quite well. :-)

Helge Hafting
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