[GLUG-chat] Re: 1 box multiple interfaces

[Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue 2004-05-04 (14:27), Herman Cremer wrote:
> I have to look into some solution,
> whereas multiple user can use one machine,
> but have different screens, keyboards, mouse(s)
> and sound cards.
> 
> Does anyone know where I can find some information on
> a solution like this ?

This was mentioned on -tech earlier.  HP has a solution called "441",
which allows four people to share a single machine.  I said:

``Well, it's actually really easy to do this.

You need four video cards (1x AGP and 3x PCI in the 441 case), 4 sets of
mice and keyboard (one set of PS/2 keyboard and mouse and three sets of
USB keyboards and mice in the 441 case), and 4 sound cards (this is the
part that's not as easy to do - anyone got any advances on this?).

Then, you set up XFree86 with the correct combination of graphics
adaptor and input devices, which will display on each screen.  You get
artsd (the KDE sound system) or esd (the GNOME one) to send to the
appropriate sound card for the given terminal, and you're done.
''

The sound cards are actually easy too, since you get USB sound cards.

Neil
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