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working multihead

[Brad M. <br...@tu...>]

hi

check out the hacks this guy made to x to make it support independent multihead. interesting.

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/

he asks out loud but i'm pretty sure it wouldn't work with a card like a dual-head matrox since
two instances of X couldn't coordinate access to the card. that's why the kernel would need to
provide a framebuffer interface to each screen (and demonstrates why we really need solid kernel
support for doing this properly)

-- 
Brad
br...@tu...      http://www.turbolinux.com/~brad/

Re: working multihead

[James S. <jsi...@su...>]

> check out the hacks this guy made to x to make it support independent 
> multihead. interesting.

Interesting. Note with xfree86 with ruby once fbdev is working you can
start two instances of the X server. Each with the -vt option (-vt 0 for
first X server, -vt 16 for second X server). Then each X server will grab
a seperate keyboard. He is right tho. Future X servers should be using
/dev/eventX and /dev/fb to startup and not even use the console layer at
all.