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Subject: Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse
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Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> writes:
> On 22:41:28 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Why?
> No specific reason. linux worked hard to get multiseat working.
>
> Can we have a free ride? I doubt very much.

Just because Linux sucks, FreeBSD necessarily sucks too?

It should work out of the box if you explicitly specify which keyboard
and mouse to use for each display (and use the "kbd" driver in Xorg
instead of the older "keyboard" driver)

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