Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:43:19 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, Freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB keyboard attach function? Message-ID: <19990422184319.G18359@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990422101412.8635G-100000@elpc36.jrc.it>; from Nick Hibma on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:18:13AM %2B0200 References: <199904220414.AAA21542@kot.ne.mediaone.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990422101412.8635G-100000@elpc36.jrc.it>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:18:13AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: >I've heard of no one trying, but I (we!) would love to hear whether you >get this to work. > >There is not problem is using two keyboards at the same time, but I am >not sure whether X can already handle more than one keyboard attached to >a system. I don't think that you can specify the keyboard /dev/ entry >int he X configuration. That's correct, but we're planning to allow the Device to be specified in XFree86 4.0. >Try looking at the XFree pages. I remember someone asking me whether >this would be possible soon in FreeBSD because they were working on >support for multiple keyboards. Supporting multiple keyboards with a single X server should be relatively easy. Supporting multiple X servers on the same host will be difficult because of video hardware resource sharing/control issues, specifically for the legacy VGA resources. In our initial approach with XFree86 4.0, the X server will assume control of all of the VGA-compatible video hardware so that it can do the necessary coordination of access to the VGA resources. As Amancio implied, it should be possible to do better than that for hardware that has a PCI class/subclass that indicates no VGA core. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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