problem with XFree86 keyboard

[dave g. <giv...@ya...>]

I have since dumped redhat and switched to debian. 
The backstreet ruby kernel that I compiled worked, and
after some struggle, I was able to get the nvidia
kernel module to compile and load and function with
XFree86, and I can now run 2 copies of XFree86
simultaneously displayed.

The problem that I have is that I have 1 PS/2 keyboard
and 1 PS/2 mouse, I want the first copy of XFree86 to
use them, and the second copy of XFree86 to run
without a keyboard or mouse.

But, whichever is the second XFree86 instance(which is
running on vt08) to start, blocks the keyboard and
mouse so that it only works on that XFree86, I can't
swich to any other vt. This even happens when I
disable the mouse & keyboard drivers for the second
XFree86 configuration file by changing the driver to
"void".

I've tried starting the 2 xfree86 servers in different
orders without any change.

Thus, because of this problem, I can't really run 2
XFree86 servers effectively, b/c when I start up the
2nd one, I can't continue to use the first one, or
switch to its vt. Maybe this is a bruby kernel
problem?



--- Svetoslav Slavtchev <sv...@gm...> wrote:
> > how do I get the messages? especially when I can't
> get
> > a system running on the kernel to do anything?
> 
> please try to setup serial console as described in
> [linux source]/Documentation/serial-console.txt
> 
> > I did add 'above hid usbcore' to
> /etc/modules.conf,
> > but still get the error messages.
> 
> which was ?
> 
> > Earlier you mentioned I should backup the file
> > /bin/sysfont, but I don't have a file with that
> name.
> > If this causes a problem, it doesn't cause one
> with
> > the redhat kernel that my system normally runs on.
> 
> this file should exist, its use to set the console
> font,
> it works OK with standard kernel, but not with bruby
> kernel
> i'm not sure wether the problem is in the file or
> the
> way it's called from the init scripts, but on
> standard
> installlation of Red Hat 8 or 9 this file causes
> oopses with
> bruby kernel
> 
> > If this file's absence is the source of the
> problem,
> > perhaps you could reply with a copy of it. (I'm on
> an
> > i686 if that matters).
> 
> it's absence couldn't cause problems, but i doubt
> it's missing.
> please check also /sbin/ and may be /usr/sbin/
> 
> please send me your .config files from the vanila
> 2.4.22
> which boots without problems and from the
> problematic 
> bruby kernel.
> 
> best,
> 
> svetljo
> 
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