Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751186AbVILHB1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:01:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751187AbVILHB1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:01:27 -0400 Received: from ctb-mesg4.saix.net ([196.25.240.84]:26021 "EHLO ctb-mesg4.saix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbVILHB0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:01:26 -0400 Message-ID: <432527B7.4070506@geograph.co.za> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:01:11 +0200 From: Zoltan Szecsei User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Hafting Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: multiple independent keyboard kernel support References: <4316E5D9.8050107@geograph.co.za> <20050911223414.GA19403@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <20050911223414.GA19403@aitel.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1690 Lines: 65 Helge Hafting wrote: >>I would prefer to see "official and permanent" support for this as then >>when HW & drivers & kernels develop in the future, this capability will >>always be (immediately) available - and not have to wait for patches. >> >> >> > >"evdev" in the kernel already separates out independent keyboards. >Isolatedevice lets several xservers run indepenmdently. There isn't >much missing, although there are minor troubles where starting one >xserver might mess up the video timing for another. (Solution: >start xserver in an appropriate order, to be found by experimentation) >Another minor problem - it won't work with every combination of video cards, >only some. >Still - when it works you even get to run accelerated 3D on >the independent heads. Nice for game parties. > > > This is by far the best news I could have hoped for. >> >> >I hope this helps. > > Definitely yes. Helge, thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my (lengthy) query. I will be away for a few weeks, but will try this in full during early October. I have in the meantime unsubscribed from linux-kernel so please use my direct address if you need to discuss anything further. Kind regards, Zoltan >Helge Hafting > > > > -- ================================== Geograph (Pty) Ltd P.O. Box 31255 Tokai 7966 Tel: +27-21-7018492 Fax: +27-86-6115323 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 ================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/