From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 9 19:25:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60E837B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9A2MmB87881; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:52:48 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:52:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Eoin Lawless , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dual console with matrox g400 Message-ID: <20001010115248.C87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200010081432.aa20470@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <39E0A436.91C3466A@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39E0A436.91C3466A@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:34AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 8 October 2000 at 10:43:34 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Eoin Lawless wrote: >> >> I've just got a dual head system with a matrox g400 working. However, >> what I would really like to have is a dual console system - so that >> two people could use it simultaneously. Has anyone tried that, or >> know if it is possible? > > Maybe it would be possible to kludge something together using PS/2 mouse > and keyboard for one and USB mouse and keyboard for the other. I don't > think there is anything available "out of the box" for this, though. Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports collection) you can allow different people access to the same server. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message