From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 01:53:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11650 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA11643 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:53:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA22979; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:52:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199810220852.KAA22979@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Nick Hibma at "Oct 22, 98 10:26:51 am" To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:52:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Nick Hibma who wrote: > > USB has the ability to accept more than one keyboard and more than one > mouse. I would like to be able to boot a machine and have login prompts > appear on multiple screens: A proper multi-user system. Why on earth would one want that ?? With todays PC prices one can easily afford multible machines, especially when you have to buy the monitor & keyboard for each anyways. > P.S.: If you fancy writing a device driver for USB, we could use someone > to do a mouse, keyboard, printer and HID driver. Given the right HW I could help out... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message