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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:55 am, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > If I put two video cards in a system I know I can get two displays.  
> > Iwant to support two users with those two display--so two monitors,
> > two keyboards, two mice.  Can this be done?  Is there a HOWTO for
> > this?
>
> Ran across this today:

Thanks, Keith.  I'm saving up references for when I have a free week to 
play with this.  I still want to do it, thought I wish I didn't have to 
either patch my kernel and/or XFree.  That makes upgrading and maintenance 
much harder.  But it's still on my list.

Michael

> -----------------------------------------
> Subject: HOWTO for REAL dual-headed linux
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:17:59 CST
> From: Jean-Daniel Pauget <jd at disjunkt.com>
> Organization: Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - http://www.altopia.com
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
>
> This document intend to describe how I managed to have a PC with:
>   two different monitors plugged to ...
>   two different graphic-cards matching ...
>   two different keyboards and mice
>        ... in order to run ...
>   two instances of XFree86, each one having it's own login screen, and
>   thus having :
>   two different users working on the same one and only one PC box at a
> time. http://disjunkt.com/dualhead/
> ------------------------------
>
> Lost in Tokyo,
>    Keith

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