Re: User questions welcome?

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

On Friday 13 August 2004 10:20, Michael Renner wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 15:44, Aivils wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > First You should try manualy all 6 variants of starting order.
> > startx -- -layout X2 vt17
> 
> thanks for all your information. I got some GeForce II cards this week. With 
> this combination everyting is running fine! 
> Some minor problem like 'shutdown'

X servers must downed in the reverse order of start. gdm do that.
 
> or competing sound access are not to bad. 

Under Mandrake/Fedora exists /etc/security/console.perms
which contains device access permisions
Multiple sound card usage explains only my files
http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/eng-down.html
Check out Mandrake 9.1 files here.
No articles.

> Thanks for your answers
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > I even think about to write an article about this method, so every help
> > > is welcome!
> >
> > Go ahead !
> 
> Do you have information about kernel 2.6 support? And information where such 
> configurations (local-multi-user-X) are used?

2.6 usage equals 2.4 usage.
In theory 2.6 have working fbcon . User may start two framebuffer devices
and each fb device have separate keyboard. Also matrox-dualhead owners can
use each head as seprate text mode console bounded with separate keyboard.
Reports about fbcon is very different. Low level fb device drivers may be broken.
fbcon new features are undocumented and breaks old school  multiheading,
where one user uses number of fbdev heads.
Multiple X servers uses aprox 5% of kernel console code so it is aprox 20 times
more bugless against fbcon.

Aivils