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

[Geoffrey]

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"

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