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Quoting Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > > Grant. > I think I might have seen the same article as what you mention, the one I found was talking about filling a machine with graphics cards and running something like 8 screens from one PC. I'll keep searching, at least for now I can mirror the displays (not ideal but it works). Eventually I will invest in a dedicated box especially with the chip and memory prices coming down so much (Aria are currently selling dual core Athlon X2 3600+ chips at about £23 each and 512MB sticks of memory for about £6 each!!!) I'll eventually build a machine to work as a dedicated media centre box. Rob -- 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