Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:32:31 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 monitors with 1 PC; possible? Message-ID: <20051014010231.GD49168@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20051013212144.90087.qmail@web36215.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051013212144.90087.qmail@web36215.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--RBwhyBAm9PDPRYWT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 13 October 2005 at 14:21:44 -0700, Rob wrote: > > I'm using 5-Stable right now. > > I wonder if FreeBSD allows me to have two independent users working > on the same PC, by using two monitors, two keyboards and two mice, > all connected to a single PC. > > xorg supports dual-head, which could be > a starting point. > > But how about the keyboards and mice? > Should that be one keyboard/mouse pair as PS/2, > and a second pair as USB? How would that > be detected and controlled? > > Is such a setup supported by the FreeBSD kernel? > Has someone tried this? I've certainly used multiple monitors, multiple mice and a single keyboard in a single user environment, and that works fine. I've also run multiple X servers on the same machine. X configuration allows you to specify which device to use. The only part I'm hazy about is how to map the keyboard definition to hardware devices. Looking at /dev, however, I see: crw------- 1 root wheel 3, 63 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/kbd0 crw------- 1 root wheel 3, 31 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/sysmouse I just tried plugging in a USB keyboard and got this: crw------- 1 root wheel 3, 63 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/kbd0 crw------- 1 root wheel 3, 195 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/kbd1 crw------- 1 root wheel 3, 31 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/sysmouse (yes, the date *must* be wrong). This looks very promising, but as long as it was plugged in, X only responded to /dev/kbd1. When I disconnected it, /dev/kbd0 responded again. So possibly there's some issue with the keyboard mapping. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --RBwhyBAm9PDPRYWT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDTwOnIubykFB6QiMRAksuAJ9NT0DXUs4VaiS6+gJCVEy7kixi+wCgp1+T qPLmTAh+xKXTXS9Yn8Uzew4= =5fPc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RBwhyBAm9PDPRYWT--
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