From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 15:27:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89ABC16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDB443D2D for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:27:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drbista@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so1229429rnk for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.82.34 with SMTP id f34mr287969rnb; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.209.6 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:12:31 +0545 From: "Dr. Sichendra Bista" To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040920023802.GG67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Multihead Consoles in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Dr. Sichendra Bista" List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:27:36 -0000 On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:57:34 +0545, Dr. Sichendra Bista wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > 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. > >