Two heads, to keyboards, two mice, two users on one machine?

PsychosisNode · 07-27-2005, 03:10 PM

'evening all!

I'm trying to set up a one box, two user system whereby I have two independant graphics cards (one AGP, one PCI), two keyboards and mice. After much googling I have found some material on this, but it's all rather dated (circa 1998-2000). I assume that I need two different X servers, and find a way of assigning an indivdual keyboard and mouse to each (I do this through xorg.conf ?)

Is this possible? Has this been done before?

Many thanks
Cheers!

Matir · 07-27-2005, 04:09 PM

It should certainly be possible. A company called Userful markets a commercial hardware interface for 10 KVM hookups to a single computer, intended for linux.

I would think it would be done through the X.conf, if you can get the devices on different /dev files.

maginotjr · 07-27-2005, 06:51 PM

search for insigne linux...

PsychosisNode · 07-27-2005, 07:43 PM

I'll read up on this:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/

Can't believe I missed it!

jogress · 07-23-2006, 06:42 PM

or this http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html

rickh · 07-23-2006, 07:42 PM

Another site to compare with jogess's (above) http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~ctyler/ruby/

The primary metod described here is using XFree, but there is a link at the top of the page to a mini-howto using Xorg.

Edit: Whoa! ... and this link just showed up on a similar thread, http://userful.com/products/free-2-user

Might be the best solution yet.