On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:22:02PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 09:39:46PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >>On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:26:58PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>>I now run a multiseat desktop: 1 PC + 2 /videocards/monitors/keybds/mice > >>>with Sid and the right xorg.conf. > >>> > >>>But that is a huge amount of gear. > >>> > >>>Much better to do a multi-seat laptop: you would need a laptop with 2 > >>>nvidia cards and 4 usb plugs. I think that's the problem -- a laptop with 2 video cards, surely there is no such beast. There are laptops with an extra video out to run an external monitor, but I believe they are 1 card with two ouputs, not two distinct cards or two different rendering engines (or whatever you call them, GPU's maybe). > >>> > >>>You would plug an extra monitor into the extra videocard and an extra > >>>keybd/mouse into 2 usb ports + setp xorg.conf. > >>> > >>>Does that exist? > >> > >>I'm missing something. How is a muti-seat desktop or laptop used? Why? > > > >Two users, one computer. Remember the term "time sharing"? well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful boxes. And if you're second user is an intermittent, low-power user (browsing, email) it could probably work pretty well. > > > >But with hardware so cheap now it seems like a weird thing to do, > >especially > >with a laptop. > > And that ends that thread. > Thanks a bunch. > H > dead-horse kicked. A
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