Re: Dual display on Blade 2000

From: DoN. Nichols (dnichols_at_d-and-d.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:35:22 GMT

In article <IM0GG9.J21@cjsa.com>, Jeffery Small <jeff@cjsa.com> wrote:
>dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:
>
>> Is this just running double-headed from a single keyboard and
>>mouse, or is it actually running two sessions with separate keyboard and
>>mouse? I *think* that is what the original poster wanted to do, based
>>on your quoting of his text.
>
>This is a dual display with a single keyboard/mouse. If the desire is for
>to completely separate sessions with separate keyboards, then I also do not
>know how to do this. I remember back with SunOS you could reconfigure the
>kernel to support up to three different mice/keyboards.

        Interesting. Was there an sBus card to give one or two extra
keyboard/mouse connectors? Or was this back in the VME days?

> I wonder, with the
>USB keyboard and mice if there is a way to handle multiple input devices
>in Solaris?

        There might be. I wonder which workspace managers would handle
it? (Or even whether you could have say CDE and Gnome running at the
same time?)

        Enjoy,
                DoN. 

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