Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source

Jes Degn Soerensen (jds@kom.auc.dk)
23 Feb 1998 14:15:16 +0100


>>>>> "Oleg" == Oleg Gusev <oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

Oleg> Jes Degn Soerensen wrote:
linker> Can you think of a better way of say poping in two pci video
linker> cards and two keyboards (one on the ps2mouse port) and two
linker> mice and having a single computer act as two for all apps in a
linker> transparent way?
>> Do we need this, do anybody actually want this?

Oleg> I'm not a big fan of kernel graphics subsystem, but the kernel
Oleg> must know what to do when i have two pci video cards and two
Oleg> keyboards.

Anyway, the kernel already knows how to deal with multiple video
boards (as it is now with fbdev), you can assign arbitrary ttys to
arbitrary consoles. You just need a way to assign keyboards in a
similar fashion, but I don't really see that as being a graphics
issue.

Jes

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