Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:50 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian
> stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence
> of mice.
>
> Have no idea why so with the Debian stock kernels and not with my own
> generated kernel.
>
> But this is the fix:
>
> Put this script into /etc/init.d/
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> #set -x
>
> rmmod usbhid
> rmmod evdev
>
> modprobe evdev
> modprobe usbhid
>
> exit 0
>
> Then run:
>
> update-rc.d do_k7 start 09 2 3 4 5 .
>
> This will remove + install evdev and usbhid and everything runs as
> normal then.
>
> Next question: how many Debian users run multi-seat Sid?
> Answer: 1 8-)
Depnds on what you call multi-seat.
I have a machine, that manages ~25 X-Displays. No, the X-Server runs on
an X-Terminal (each with a Keyboard, Mouse and Sound) and then the
Display Manager runs from the server. The XDMCP protocol is what is
used. The X-Terms all boot from a tftp server that serves up the images
they need to boot.
All programs execute on the server, but display on the Local X-Server.
No, no "accelerated displays". The X-Server on the server itself is a
dummy.
Reason I use Sid, Xorg does this better than XFree86.
That is what I cal Multi-seat.
How about we call it a truce.
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