Re: Multiseat supported by Xorg or not?

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

On Tre=F0diena, 16. Novembris 2005 14:40, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Dienstag 15 November 2005 11:41, schrieb Aivils Stoss:
> > On Ceturtdiena, 10. Novembris 2005 09:51, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > Aivils Stoss wrote:
> > > >On Tre=F0diena, 9. Novembris 2005 13:38, Ander Conselvan de Oliveira=
=20
wrote:
> > > >>Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > >>>Ander Conselvan de Oliveira wrote:
> > > >>>>Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Well, ordinary x.org (from debian and several others) is capable of
> > > >>>using several pointers and keyboards.  (One pointer+kbd per seat.)
> > > >>>That's why I asked - I already run such a setup. :-)
> > > >>
> > > >>That's the point. The x.org was modified to allow multiseat. But th=
is
> > > >> is a hack. The whole thing is made so that just one instance of the
> > > >> server is controlling all the hardware. The right way to do it,
> > > >> would be implement something like RAC into the kernel.
> > > >
> > > >Yep. That Debian modification is not acepted by X men. It is nonpro
> > > > solution as all as i provide. I think working state is a lucky case
> > > > more than regularity, even so many peoples use it.
> > >
> > > Hm.  Do those "X-men" have a long-term plan for a better
> > > solution than the working one they don't like?
> >
> > Someone should make public a political volition about multi seat, like
> > petition to Xorg "We want to live as humans".
> > I have read discussions about multi seat. two anti conditions are
> > notified allways:
> > 1) multiple X cannot manage hardware resources.
> > 2) _nonstandard_ solution increase costs anyway, even if hardware is
> > cheaper.
> >
> > standard or nonstandard is a public opinition only. At least i do not
> > know how to ISO commite,ANSI,DIN defines a PC.
>
> Hm, I wonder what relation these comments have to the attached emails from
> xo...@li... just yesterday.
>
That is third party code. Try to ask Xorg why similar keyboard driver,
shipped by Debian, created at fall of 2003, does not fit for main stream.
key word: 055_lnx_evdev_keyboard.diff
destination: www.debian.org
Debian stable shipped with this one.

Aivils