Re: HOWTO: turn one linux PC into multple stations for kiosk

Lew Pitcher wrote:

On Mar 24, 8:50 am, carto...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


It is my understanding that back in the old days of UNIX (80's), that
it was not uncommon to find one physical machine with multiple dumb
terminals. I need to setup a 5 station kiosk system that will run a
web browser. It dawned on me that in theory I should be able to use
Linux on one physical box and simply put multiple video cards in it
and hook up multiple keyboards/mice to it. The only question is:
how? Are there any howto or faq's out there on the subject?



http://userful.com/products/multi-station-how-it-works


This is one way but most distributions allow this without paying extra for it. Some Googling (rtfg?) quickly finds:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Multiseat_X

and

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/

From there you can probably find more. I searched on "x11 multiple keyboards howto".

Good luck,

Steve

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