Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] "current" "console", how many in a system ?

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

>> BTW, does someone know if i can plug a second PS/2 keyboard in the PS/2
>> mouse
>
>Physically and electrically, yes. But you need some patches to make it
>work as a second keyboard. Probably they are part of the input section of
>the linuxconsole project at SourceForge.

Yes it is. In fact my system setup is just that. I have two PS/2 keybaords
plugged in. I have a mda console and vga/fbcon running with a voodoo 3
card. I something have it so mdacon is my "admin" vt so I can place
printks in fbcon to debug it. If fbcon oops or locks up and can just go to
the mda workstation and see what happened. I can also debug a fbdev driver
the same way. Normally I run X ontop of the tdfx card either with vgacon
or fbcon and the mda VT as a regular console. I also have a Sun keyboard
but you need to build your own sun keyboard to serial port adapter to get
it going. I seen someone posted they are using a regular sun keyboard on a
ix86 box. I plan to get around to building that adapter soon.

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renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.

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