Success - at last

[Gareth J. <in...@sp...>]

Hi, 

Yesterday I finally managed to get a working four seat Linux implementation,
using faketty0.4 on top of a patched Fedora 4 distribution. I'm very
pleased.

The details:
Software:
Fedora4 2.6.13-vz3.1 (james van zeeland's patch)
Fedora core 4 distribution
Faketty0.4
Latest nvidia binary drivers compiled for the above kernel
Hardware:
MSI KT6 Delta mainboard
AMD XP2800
1 nvidia mx4000 agp
3 nvidia mx4000 pci
USB devices:
2 microsoft multimedia keyboards
1 cherry multimedia keyboard with hub
1 hp multimedia jeyboard with hub 
4 logitech mice
Screens
4 x iiyama prolite e380s

I've been working on this on and off for 6 months. I need to thank michael
pardee from groovix for all his initial help, and James for his more recent
help with this - and of course alvis!

I've sent some stuff to James for inclusion in his howto - and I'll write
something up as well on th eprocess I went through to get to the current
implementation. Briefly, it involved Groovix (michaels debian
implementation), ubuntu (which hung as soon as I tried to log in), and now
the current set of software.

The hardest part does seem to be determining which usb devices are attahced
to where - I used lsusb for this. The main xfree multi user howto has a
useful piece on this - which I'd forgotten about.

I want to change the way in which my usb devices are plugged into the system
- I'm dreading this as it took so long to get it right - hopefull this will
be easier the second time around. A good multi posrt usb 2.0 hub is needed
so I can get some of the keyboards and mice away from the main tower.

I'm planning to use this as a series of kiosk type screens for my photogrphy
business, where I need lots of people to be able to browse, so the next step
is a kiosk browser and locking down the desktop - I may try to adapt
boothbox or just modify the firefox uxl.

Hope you find this interesting.

regards
gareth jones
sports-alive

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