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Rob Beard wrote: > 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 > I found the link to what I want to achieve - http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html That's the sort of idea I'm looking at but with less video cards/keyboards/mice. I'm going to give Ubuntu 8.04 a try and see if this detects my multiple video cards right. 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