From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 21 23:19:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBB315149 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08309; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199904220616.XAA08309@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: Freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB keyboard attach function? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:14:42 EDT." <199904220414.AAA21542@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:16:12 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should be able to fire up two video cards were one them can not be mapped to the vga registers -- your mileage will vary here pending upon the vga card implementation for instance the old matrox millenium had a feature to disable the vga register mapping . Can speak much about syscons I would just ignore if I had two X servers however if you are planning a dual console system I don't know if it will work your best is to ask Soren who is the original author of syscon. The mouse stuff shouldn't be too much of a problem from the X server perspective it thinks that it is talking to a serial device. Cheers, Amancio > Viren R. Shah once stated: > > =Amancio and Nick helped me get my system with only a USB keyboard and > =USB mouse up and running. Right now I'm pretty happy with the way it is > =now. My only concern is that the FreeBSD bootloader does not appear to > =see keystrokes from the USB keyboard (which kinda makes it difficult to > =switch OSes on an USB only system). > > Provided I configure two video cards not to conflict, can I use > two USB keyboard and two USB mice (or one USB and one usual of > each) and run two independent X-servers? Two instances of sc? > > Thanks! > > -mi -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message