From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 01:38:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA10819 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:38:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10798 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id SAA17904; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:37:03 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19981022183703.A17878@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:37:03 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Nick Hibma , Mike Smith Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 10:26:51AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 10:26:51AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: >Where can I find information on multiple headed machines? And I mean >the X concept of > > One CPU box > >and attached to it > > a number of sets > >One set consists of a mouse, keyboard and head (graphics screen or >serial output device). Two different ways of doing this: > > - X > - text consoles Actually, the X concept of multi-head is multiple screens and a single set of input devices. >With X it should be possible, but I don't know how. Any pointers would Some commercial X servers support it in the standard X way (and XFree86 will in version 4.0). With suitable OS and X server support, multiple X servers could be run to provide what you're looking for, for X at least. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message