From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 16:50:27 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 801ACA08 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EA4E6BB for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iedfl3 with SMTP id fl3so89545272ied.1 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:50:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0C5D8AJnoKj/16yuNJdRdNxmr7kL9B+E3lRmVG5/Was=; b=saMn9PTl1aXLhNFS0IsqvbtHOze8DUQVssfqRV7pZz8UkgkSF0zd4Fb+U/Se8WRY5t WGwIAJ5KOiDkQ+kc7EG80SxWHp/Xp/QK4jCPLFS30LKTeDcHevWoiZfQWhsBg4KuoJaT Z/MCUFy2vlr6I56YHcl6+LIO8emddRKDRUtoDIi0gnoNfFGrIKgj/nDCyfRbiPuSU1o1 nWtY4Ymk557SzhVoPiYFgAcqavLbp6PA2tKYCiG+xehnZCnEGGqFtjLe58FitKXlilsH +nvlbKyEzZGPIFWiU3fp1GgAgv/H3MmHd5uGc6+LHOb76EB/YEBlXTUosn9ZPQ8U+oFm 0kwQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.216.145 with SMTP id hi17mr33595555icb.63.1428511826711; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.24.141 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:50:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:50:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: multiple X servers From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Wojciech Puchar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Mark Saad , Garrett Cooper X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:50:27 -0000 On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > seems like it should work. i will try it when actually get second card. > > On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Mark Saad wrote: > > >> On Apr 8, 2015, at 6:57 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> >>>>> Not with Xinerama, but 2 separate ones, first using first keyboard and >>>>> first mouse, other using second keyboard and second mouse. >>>>> >>>>> i did this long time ago under NetBSD but X changed so much (as well >>>>> as GFX hardware) that this patches are now irrelevant. >>>>> >>>> >>>> As long as you have 2 separate xorg.confs and use two separate >>>> displays, I don?t see why not... >>>> >>> because when Xorg starts it messed up with all display adapters. >>> but maybe it changed. >>> >> >> While linux oriented the arch wiki has some good starting material for >> this; Also known as multiseat x . I tried this years ago on Debian , but >> never tried it on FreeBSD . >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat >> >> >> --- >> Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@ >>> freebsd.org" >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If it is possible to execute a second instance of X , the following may be done : Include a command line parameter to X about configuration file to use instead of a default one : $ xorg --cf=A.conf $ xorg --cf=B.conf Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk