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Success - at last

[Gareth J. <in...@sp...>]

Hi, 

Yesterday I finally managed to get a working four seat Linux implementation,
using faketty0.4 on top of a patched Fedora 4 distribution. I'm very
pleased.

The details:
Software:
Fedora4 2.6.13-vz3.1 (james van zeeland's patch)
Fedora core 4 distribution
Faketty0.4
Latest nvidia binary drivers compiled for the above kernel
Hardware:
MSI KT6 Delta mainboard
AMD XP2800
1 nvidia mx4000 agp
3 nvidia mx4000 pci
USB devices:
2 microsoft multimedia keyboards
1 cherry multimedia keyboard with hub
1 hp multimedia jeyboard with hub 
4 logitech mice
Screens
4 x iiyama prolite e380s

I've been working on this on and off for 6 months. I need to thank michael
pardee from groovix for all his initial help, and James for his more recent
help with this - and of course alvis!

I've sent some stuff to James for inclusion in his howto - and I'll write
something up as well on th eprocess I went through to get to the current
implementation. Briefly, it involved Groovix (michaels debian
implementation), ubuntu (which hung as soon as I tried to log in), and now
the current set of software.

The hardest part does seem to be determining which usb devices are attahced
to where - I used lsusb for this. The main xfree multi user howto has a
useful piece on this - which I'd forgotten about.

I want to change the way in which my usb devices are plugged into the system
- I'm dreading this as it took so long to get it right - hopefull this will
be easier the second time around. A good multi posrt usb 2.0 hub is needed
so I can get some of the keyboards and mice away from the main tower.

I'm planning to use this as a series of kiosk type screens for my photogrphy
business, where I need lots of people to be able to browse, so the next step
is a kiosk browser and locking down the desktop - I may try to adapt
boothbox or just modify the firefox uxl.

Hope you find this interesting.

regards
gareth jones
sports-alive

e: in...@sp...
w: www.sports-alive.com

Re: Success - at last

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Ceturtdiena, 6. Oktobris 2005 20:18, Gareth Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I finally managed to get a working four seat Linux
> implementation, using faketty0.4 on top of a patched Fedora 4 distribution.
> I'm very pleased.
>
> The details:
> Software:
> Fedora4 2.6.13-vz3.1 (james van zeeland's patch)
> Fedora core 4 distribution
> Faketty0.4
> Latest nvidia binary drivers compiled for the above kernel
> Hardware:
> MSI KT6 Delta mainboard
> AMD XP2800
> 1 nvidia mx4000 agp
> 3 nvidia mx4000 pci
> USB devices:
> 2 microsoft multimedia keyboards
> 1 cherry multimedia keyboard with hub
> 1 hp multimedia jeyboard with hub
> 4 logitech mice
> Screens
> 4 x iiyama prolite e380s
>
> I've been working on this on and off for 6 months. I need to thank michael
> pardee from groovix for all his initial help, and James for his more recent
> help with this - and of course alvis!
>
> I've sent some stuff to James for inclusion in his howto - and I'll write
> something up as well on th eprocess I went through to get to the current
> implementation. Briefly, it involved Groovix (michaels debian
> implementation), ubuntu (which hung as soon as I tried to log in), and now
> the current set of software.
>
> The hardest part does seem to be determining which usb devices are attahced
> to where - I used lsusb for this. The main xfree multi user howto has a
> useful piece on this - which I'd forgotten about.

X1wrap exists into faketty package. You must edit that X1wrap file.
You must enter right keyboard physicaly location:
PHYS=isa0060.serio0.input0 - means location of PS/2 1st keyboard.
In abstract any fttyXX file can handle any keyboard. X1wrap can
determine which ftty handle necessary keyboard device. X1wrap check 
out /proc/bus/input/devices and creates symbolic link to ftty device. Then
X1wrap start X server with proper vtXX option.

device physicaly location is unique. Take a look into /proc/bus/input/devices
That file contain information about ftty too.

Aivils
> I want to change the way in which my usb devices are plugged into the
> system - I'm dreading this as it took so long to get it right - hopefull
> this will be easier the second time around. A good multi posrt usb 2.0 hub
> is needed so I can get some of the keyboards and mice away from the main
> tower.
>
> I'm planning to use this as a series of kiosk type screens for my
> photogrphy business, where I need lots of people to be able to browse, so
> the next step is a kiosk browser and locking down the desktop - I may try
> to adapt boothbox or just modify the firefox uxl.
>
> Hope you find this interesting.
>
> regards
> gareth jones
> sports-alive
>
> e: in...@sp...
> w: www.sports-alive.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Success - at last

[Daniel W. <da...@in...>]

Hi Gareth,

Have you experienced any locking problems with your NVidia cards? We=20
have tried using GeForce cards and after a while we got some black=20
screens and had to restart the X on that card (usually the third or=20
fourth). Sometimes restarting X wouldn't work and we had to reboot. We=20
managed to reproduce the error by running xscreensaver on all four=20
heads. "lsmod" would show the nvidia module loaded more than 200 times.

Greetings,
Daniel

Gareth Jones escreveu:
> Hi,=20
>=20
> Yesterday I finally managed to get a working four seat Linux implementa=
tion,
> using faketty0.4 on top of a patched Fedora 4 distribution. I'm very
> pleased.
>=20
> The details:
> Software:
> Fedora4 2.6.13-vz3.1 (james van zeeland's patch)
> Fedora core 4 distribution
> Faketty0.4
> Latest nvidia binary drivers compiled for the above kernel
> Hardware:
> MSI KT6 Delta mainboard
> AMD XP2800
> 1 nvidia mx4000 agp
> 3 nvidia mx4000 pci
> USB devices:
> 2 microsoft multimedia keyboards
> 1 cherry multimedia keyboard with hub
> 1 hp multimedia jeyboard with hub=20
> 4 logitech mice
> Screens
> 4 x iiyama prolite e380s
>=20
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Daniel Weingaertner
Depto de Inform=E1tica - UFPR   Fone: 3361-3567
C Postal 19081, 81531-990 Curitiba PR, Brasil