Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:41:28 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse Message-ID: <200711142241.36337.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20071114105055.GA10794@saraswathy.susmita.org> References: <1b4e25200711131141h6ef5fde5ub64d5e2660366a05@mail.gmail.com> <200711141421.02872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20071114105055.GA10794@saraswathy.susmita.org>
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--nextPart1497178.zgjlSUyPsS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell > > them which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file? > > > > ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux. > > Try it. If it works let us know. :) > > Very unlikely. Why? > Nowadays all X display managers supply multiseat. So this might not > be too much of a problem if the mouse and keyboard events are kept > separated at the kernel level. Keyboard data would not be MUX'd if you didn't use kbdmux. Unless you=20 use moused mouse events wouldn't be MUX'd. I haven't tried it since I lack the hardware ATM but.. why not? :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1497178.zgjlSUyPsS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHOuX45ZPcIHs/zowRAkMuAJwO5N4ZmISWs6kQRjAy+HUnMJF1/QCfWeL+ MKMk/LJjsmCcXm5ONi0P8WA= =zagj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1497178.zgjlSUyPsS--
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