[ale] Two console users on one system--is it possible?

[Geoffrey]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:33 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 
>>I'm really guessing off the top of my head here, because I've never
>>heard of someone actually doing this. Most seem to go some varient of
>>the LTSP or thin clients/X servers. However...
>>
>>It occurs to me that the new hardware can run USB keyboards and USB
>>mice. Assuming you can keep all the similar devices straight, which you
>>should, the project as asked appears doable. I've never seen a HOWTO
>>suggesting such a thing however. If you try something like this, I'd
>>love to see the writeup on how you did it.
> 
> 
> USB looks like it will help.  Where in the X config file do you specify 
> which keyboard to use.  I've never seen a keyboard device.  They just all 
> seem to end up in one keyboard device.
> 
> Michael

I'm pretty sure you'll need to be in X 4.* to get this to work.  The 
config has changed quite a bit there.  For keyboards you have entries like:

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier "Keyboard1"
     Driver "Keyboard"
     Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
     Option "XkbLayout" "us"
     Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

And then there will be references to the Identifier elsewhere, as in the 
ServerLayout:

Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier "layout1"
     InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
     InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
     Screen "screen1"
EndSection

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