Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:12:31 +0545 From: "Dr. Sichendra Bista" <drbista@gmail.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multihead Consoles in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <c47f28dc04092008274847d98@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c47f28dc040919201276cd2a27@mail.gmail.com> References: <c47f28dc040919073525b7ea7b@mail.gmail.com> <20040920023802.GG67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> <c47f28dc040919201276cd2a27@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:57:34 +0545, Dr. Sichendra Bista <drbista@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Sunday, 19 September 2004 at 20:20:08 +0545, Dr. Sichendra Bista wrote: > > > I would love to explore if there are some people around who are > > > working on or created multihead consoles in FreeBSD as stated at > > > http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead or http://startx.times.lv. (Please > > > visit the links before > > > > Well, it would be good to say what people might find there. They > > might be reading mail offline. > > > > > I have successfully created one with FC1 Linux, but would love to > > > know if there are someone in the BSD world. (I am thinking of > > > migrating to BSD)! > > > > I'm writing this from in front of seven displays. See > > http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html for an older photo with only > > five monitors, also with a description of how I did it. I have these > > displays spread across four machines, one of them a laptop, while the > > one at http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead is on a single machine. > > That's not an issue, though: if that's what you want to do, it would > > work equally well on one machine. > > > > Note also that you don't need four video cards for this configuration. > > The cards they're using come in dual-head versions, so two would be > > enough. > > > > One big difference between the configuration you describe and mine is > > that mine only needs one keyboard and mouse. > > If I remeber right, are you referring to a keyboard and mouse sharing > utility like synergy.sf.net? Sorry that was a wrong link. I think your system may be just like this link: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ > > > I consider this a great > > advantage. If you really want separate keyboards, I suppose it would > > be possible, though I haven't investigated. > > > > If you want to follow up on the technical aspects of this sort of > > thing, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org might be a better mailing list. > > > > Greg > > -- > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > >
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