From: Steffen Seeger <s.seeger@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:34:25 +0100 (CET)

Re: Multiple users

 
> > > Works great with all four buttons and the wheel. As of kernel 2.3.25 the 
> > > USB mouse driver only supports one USB mouse, 
> > 
> > ARGL ... will they make the same mistakes again over and over ?
> 
> Yes :( The good news is Vojetch is working on something that does use
> multiple mice. Even regualr mice.

I can only make suggestions, but he should have a look at using KGI-0.9 as a 
base and simply enhance the somewhat neglected KII input interface a bit.
Thanks Brian there is a patch that allows the input interface to be used
with kgi-0.9. 
 
> > > but if none of the USB people does it before me I intend to fix that.
> > 
> > Good. TNX.
> > 
> > > As for keyboards it seems you can attach multiple USB keyboards,
> > > but everything will go into the normal (single-headed) console
> > > system via calls to handle_scancode(), so multiple keyboards are
> > > pretty useless. 
> > 
> > Ouch ...
> 
> Vojetch is also working on that :) Last time I tried it I got two ps/2
> keyboards to work (one was in my ps/2 mouse port). 

No comment. Thanks Brian there is a patch that allows the input interface
to be used with kgi-0.9. If you manage to get the input drivers by Vojtech
working with KGI-0.9 for multiple USB keyboards, you are ready to go 
multihead! Even without KGI-0.9 drivers... 
 
> > > I intend to hack the USB keyboard driver to export
> > > a character device per keyboard, supporting medium-raw mode and
> > > the normal keyboard LED ioctl()s. If the USB people doesn't like
> > > that I'll maintain a separate patch.
> 
> Take a look at Vojetch work. 
> 
> ftp://ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/linux/input

I would be very grateful if his work could be used with KGI without having
to rewrite it again. 
 
> > Hmm - I'd rather just export an event oriented interface and handle dispatching
> > in userspace ... greetings from EvStack, you know ... :-).
> 
> By the way Vojetch work is based on GGI console. 

I am not clear what you referring to here... EvStack? ggi-0.0.9? kgi-0.9?

> He thinks it was really good work. The only real difference is its 
> less streams orientated. Linus hates AT&T Streams for some reason :(

Or other three-letter words...

> Vojetch is working on the keyboard
> part and I'm working on fbcon so we can have a true multiheaded system.
> Note also the newest 2.3.x kernels have real resource management now. Its
> being worked on for other types of buses. So linux is finally evolving to
> the KGI level.  

Good to hear.

			Steffen

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