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Grant Sewell wrote: > I read something about this recently, although I have to admit I can't > remember where. It was an article about having "greener" computers - > since most computers in use today are idling most of the time, why get > a computer when you could just use the 1 computer twice over. > > Anyway, IIRC one of the issues they had was getting X to respect only 1 > keyboard per instance of X. They had 2 Xs running and 2 keyboards > plugged in, and despite trying to tell X1 "only use this keyboard and > not that", it would still take input from "that". > The article was a little old (c. 2005) so it may have been overcome. > As per Simon's advice, though, use 2 separate cards. I think it required you to use a slightly different way of getting keyboard events. Did require a kernel module at one point (I think it was e-something), but looking at /dev/input I've got lots of event* entries, some of which are for the keyboard so I think you just use those directly. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html