On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:00:35PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Running a multiseat setup is easy with Sid/Etch because it only involves > plugging in the hardware (more than 1 videocard/monitor/mouse/keyboard) > and configuring xorg.conf + gdm.conf (both attached). It still makes > economic sense because the cost of the sum of those 4 things is still > less than the cost of a complete PC. > > However... you cannot use a stock Debian kernel, and I figured out why > but don't know the reason behind it. > > You will have to use USB mice because that is the only place there is > physical room. > > But stock kernels use initrd to load USB module usbhid for USB mouse > support. > > And with that X will fail with "No core pointer!" weird. > > I welcome anybody to venture the reason for this behavior. And how do > you take the usbhid module out of the initrd.img of a stock Debian kernel? well, I was surprised to find that machine is using mkinitrd (sid box). I thought we had moved to yaird. regardless, there is a file for mkinitrd, /etc/mkinitrd/modules that behaves just like /etc/modules, so I imagine you could use 'blacklist usbhid' to keep it out of the initrd. I know some similar conf exits for yaird. A
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