From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 15:04:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC6116A5DB for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jad@nominet.org.uk) Received: from mx4.nominet.org.uk (mx4.nominet.org.uk [213.248.199.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D382C43D49 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:04:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jad@nominet.org.uk) Received: from wds1.okna.nominet.org.uk (HELO notes1.nominet.org.uk) ([213.248.197.128]) by mx4.nominet.org.uk with ESMTP; 12 May 2006 16:04:36 +0100 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,122,1146438000"; d="scan'208"; a="3342837:sNHT32297320" In-Reply-To: <20060511102353.89105.qmail@web51712.mail.yahoo.com> To: NAOD TSIGHE MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.5 November 30, 2005 Message-ID: From: jad@nominet.org.uk Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:04:50 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on notes1/Nominet(Release 6.5.3|September 14, 2004) at 05/12/2006 04:04:49 PM, Serialize complete at 05/12/2006 04:04:49 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:04:38 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote on 11/05/2006 11:23:53: > Hi, > Is it possible to attach two monitors, 2keybord and 2 > mouse to one PC, by just buying some card that will > connect with a PC. > > I just want to know if it is possible for me to just > buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard > so that two students could learn in one pc. and oppen > two different programes at the same time. > I have not played with it yet but you might want to take a look at FreeBSD 6.1. From the 6.1-rc1 announcement (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-April/016104.html) "a keyboard multiplexer being added. This is enabled by default via the 'kbdmux' driver and allows multiple keyboards of any type to be plugged in and work at once." Reading the man page for kbdmux it isn't clear to me if the keyboards will work independently in X but it might be worth a try. It looks like this topic has come up a lot. See this post and the link at the end of it http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-October/101408.html . Hope this helps John