Re: multihead patches

[Svetoslav S. <ga...@st...>]

Hi to all of you
> Hi Brad,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 13:13, Brad Midgley wrote:
> > i would like to get a set of patches such that you can use the same 
> > xfree binary for either head. ideally, this same binary could be used
> by 
> > people not doing multihead so xfree could maybe merge the patch. do
> you 
> > think it could be based on your patch or should it be started from
> scratch?
> 
> I think you can base it on this patch, just adding some parameters to
> xfree86 so it would disable vt handling code and avoid messing with
> some
> pci stuff.

you can probably find helpful some ideas from here
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/09/
thread "multiuser X 4.1.0"
> Note that even joining both patches it still a hack! It is much likely
> to be other problems with some specific video cards/hardware.

I`m haveing the opinion that not all cards can be used at same time from 
different X servers
> > i have a couple of questions from looking at the second-head patch 
> >
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/XFree86-4.1.0-2nd-0.92.patch
> > 
> > is there a way to avoid the pc-at keyboard hack code? why is it
> necessary?
> 
> Have you read the text? How do you suggest receiving scan codes from
> the
> second keyboard only?
no way until ruby works, but when it will work ?

and i wanted to report that the part about G450 works with G550 useing fbdev as 
driver, i got some troubles with the mices, and i couldn`t get the first head 
accelerated so i reverted to to gfx cards


Regards

svetljo