Jeremy Kister on 21 Oct 2007 20:28:06 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Meeting Topic Request


On 10/21/2007 3:07 PM, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
1. Get several PCI video cards, monitors, USB keyboards, USB mice, and USB sound cards (if sound is needed). Modify xorg.conf to run as many sessions as you need, each with one video/keyboard/mouse.
+ Cheap, standard hardware
+ No additional software needed
- All seats must be very close together (1-3m)
- Requires manual configuration

Having already read the article on wikipedia and the article on linuxtoys.org, this is definitely what i want to do. The hardware piece is easy. it's getting the software to place nicely that needs more of a clue.


The think i'm looking for is how folks are dealing with the linuxtoys.org 'logout oops' problem, where if one/some of the seats logs out, the kernel panics.

go eagles!

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Jeremy Kister
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