2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 monitors with 1 PC; possible?

From: Rob (spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/13/05

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    Hi,

    I'm using 5-Stable right now.

    I wonder if FreeBSD allows me to have two
    independent users working on the same PC,
    by using two monitors, two keyboards and
    two mice, all connected to a single PC.

    xorg supports dual-head, which could be
    a starting point.

    But how about the keyboards and mice?
    Should that be one keyboard/mouse pair as PS/2,
    and a second pair as USB? How would that
    be detected and controlled?

    Is such a setup supported by the FreeBSD kernel?
    Has someone tried this?

    Regards,
    Rob.

                    
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