Re: keyboard

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

> > Well that is a little more complex. I seen another posting about this.
> 
> Anyone got any more info on this?

XFree86 X servers are a little different than other peices of software.
They talk directly to the hardware bypassing the kernels resource
management system. XFree86 3.3.6 has no really multihead management.
XF4.0 sort of does but it does it on its own instead of using the OS to
help it out. 

> My BIOS has AGP first (the matrox is on PCI), and it works quite
> happily (+xinerama, fb tools...) - only error message  is:
> "Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!"
> "Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!"
> But I guess that's something for my BIOS setup. (shadow rom or something)

Strange. I don't think this has anything to do with linux.

> It is not crucial, but it would be nice (19" instead of 14"), in the meantime
> I'll boot in straight text mode, but then I can't use X (don't ask me why my
> video card needs a framebuffer to be initialised properly for X...)

That is strange. XFree86 usually works better without fbdev. Is this what
your talking about?

> I thought vesa or matrox did (or maybe it was an older version, or maybe
> I am just going insane again)
> The USB is broken too.

Must be a older CVS download. Right now the fbdev is broken because of the
massive rewrite it needs.

> So how can I switch/use to the second head?
> Or do I just attach a keyboard to the second head?
> - no quite clear in *my* head yet, but getting there.

For a fully function VT you need one display and one keyboard. Each VT
acts independent of each other. This is done for security reasons. Imagine
at work on have one multihead linux server. Now from the server each
keyboard and monitor with extensions could run into different offices.
Here you don't want to VT switch to a terminal belonging to someone else
in some other office. 

> > > > Look at ruby CVS code for xfree86.
> > > Where is this tree?
> > Grab the ruby tree and right at the top you see a xfree86 directory.
> 
> I still don't see it! (ls -lR | grep -i xfree => nothing)
> [antoine@shami ruby]$ ls
> AGAINST-2.4.0-test7  CVS  app-patches  linux  utils

Remove the current ruby tree you have to download a new tree. I have 

AGAINST-2.4.0-test7  CVS  app-patches  linux  utils  xfree86   

> docs what docs. ;-(
> Do you think there is any chance of getting the Xfree86 people to point me in
> the right direction? Or spare me a few minutes (like you guys did).

Ask them. They have several mailing list. 

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