multiple X servers

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:

> seems like it should work. i will try it when actually get second card.
>
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Mark Saad wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 8, 2015, at 6:57 AM, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> Not with Xinerama, but 2 separate ones, first using first keyboard and
>>>>> first mouse, other using second keyboard and second mouse.
>>>>>
>>>>> i did this long time ago under NetBSD but X changed so much (as well
>>>>> as GFX hardware) that this patches are now irrelevant.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As long as you have 2 separate xorg.confs and use two separate
>>>> displays, I don?t see why not...
>>>>
>>> because when Xorg starts it messed up with all display adapters.
>>> but maybe it changed.
>>>
>>
>> While linux oriented the arch wiki has some good starting material for
>> this; Also known as multiseat x . I tried this years ago on Debian , but
>> never tried it on FreeBSD .
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat
>>
>>
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>> Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org
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If it is possible to execute a second instance of X , the following may be
done :


Include a command line parameter to X about configuration file to use
instead of a default one :


$ xorg --cf=A.conf
$ xorg --cf=B.conf



Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk