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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:02 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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

yes, I use 4.x.  But what device is your keyboard?  In the XF86Config-4 I 
see where my mouse is /dev/psaux, but there is no device file for the 
keyboard.  Is that a hidden option somewhere?

Michael
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