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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:20:55 +0530
From:      Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse
Message-ID:  <20071114105055.GA10794@saraswathy.susmita.org>
In-Reply-To: <200711141421.02872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <1b4e25200711131141h6ef5fde5ub64d5e2660366a05@mail.gmail.com> <20071114012358.GA2700@saraswathy.susmita.org> <200711141421.02872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
 
> Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell them 
> which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file?
> 
> ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux.

Try it. If it works let us know. :)

Very unlikely.

Nowadays all X display managers supply multiseat. So this might not be
too much of a problem if the mouse and keyboard events are kept
separated at the kernel level.

But AFAIK muxing is hard to "fix"...

regards,
Girish


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