On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:08:40AM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:

William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> writes:

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I have multiple video cards (agp, pci) and multiple mouses (serial, ps/2, usb) working independently. That is, I can choose which should be selected when bringing up X.

But, multiple keyboards are all shared; so, you can press keys from any keyboard. How do you get them working independently?

By having a separate XF86Config for each keyboard, mouse, and video card combination. Each XF86Config would have its own InputDevice sections for its respective keyboard and mouse. The trick is to know which device (in /dev) represents which keyboard or mouse. This is obviouse if you have say one PS/2 keyboard, one USB keyboard, one PS/2 mouse, and one USB mouse. But it's tricky if you have multiple USB keyboards and mice since they will be assigned entries in /dev/input dynamically. As long as you keep them permanently plugged in, you should be able to figure out what's what by trial and error.

Note, while I have used USB keyboards and mice, I haven't tried this type of setup so YMMV.

Found it! -- http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ I got this working on my Slackware-9.1, kernel-2.4.23, and XFree86-4.3.0. Key insights are - modprobe -r keybdev - modprobe evdev -- William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> Linux solution for data management and processing. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml