Dual User computer 2006-02-11 - By jludwig
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On Friday 10 February 2006 15:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi all,
> It's been awhile since I posted here. I hope you'll humor the question.
>
> We got interested in a very inexpensive way to move my mom, now in
> her 70's, to Linux. My dad's been running Linux for over two years now
> and loves it. My mom's Windows machine is old, slow and almost
> completely unmaintained, meaning dangerous, etc.
>
> The idea I hit upon, since neither of them require ANY performance
> and generally require almost no multimedia capabilities, was to
> install a second PCI-based VGA in the existing machine, along with a
> second mouse and keyboard. The idea was that possibly I could create a
> new screen setup within the xorg.conf file that would link the new USB
> keyboard/mouse to the PCI adapter while keeping the AGP adapter linked
> with the PS/2 mouse/keyboard.
>
> Should this be possible somehow or are thee known problems?
>
> In the end, since we run gdm, I'd really like to get gdm displayed
> on both monitors and allow logins from either keyboard, etc.
>
> Your thoughts about the idea are really appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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As I remember this is possible, though I have not done so myself.
You would have to manually edit xorg.conf so that the USB keyboard, monitor1
and mouse were linked to, say, screen1 and the PS/2 keyboard monitor0 and
mouse to screen0 etc.
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