From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 13:43:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27041 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27019; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00763; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810222047.NAA00763@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: nick.hibma@jrc.it, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:52:04 +0200." <199810220852.KAA22979@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:47:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA27022 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... 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