Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:47:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: nick.hibma@jrc.it, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199810222047.NAA00763@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:52:04 %2B0200." <199810220852.KAA22979@sos.freebsd.dk>
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> 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... Tell you what; on the first commit of the new ATA driver, FTL will send you a complete USB starter kit. Sound reasonable? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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