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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 06:39 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It's in my post you responded to, just above 'Section "InputDevice"

Huh?  Just above that part you wrote

> >>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:

There is no content in that paragraph, or I'm too stupid to see it.

I'll try one more time.  In the section InputDevice it says:

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

So, which is the keyboard device?  All it says is 'Driver "Keyboard"' which 
does not tell me which device (and I mean linux device as in /dev/xxx) it 
is.  If I knew how to distiguish two keyboards into two differenct 
InputDevice entries then I'd be able to use X as you suggest.

--Michael
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