From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 12:11:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2394316A417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:11:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AD213C442 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:11:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-33-194.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.33.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAECBerk029697 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:41:41 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:41:28 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1b4e25200711131141h6ef5fde5ub64d5e2660366a05@mail.gmail.com> <200711141421.02872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20071114105055.GA10794@saraswathy.susmita.org> In-Reply-To: <20071114105055.GA10794@saraswathy.susmita.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1497178.zgjlSUyPsS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200711142241.36337.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Subject: Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:11:43 -0000 --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--