On 2/23/2010 2:13 PM, Andy Graybeal wrote:

is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS?

I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers.

I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS.

I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this.

Any information would be helpful.

I think that can be done but it is probably more common to use old/underpowered PCs as thin clients using LTSP or something to network-boot into X with a remote session from a more powerful server. You get the same effect without the distance restrictions.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Andy Graybeal andy.graybeal@casanueva.com wrote:

is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS?

I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice.  I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers.

I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations.  I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS.

I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this.

It's pretty trivial on CentOS. Check these links: http://wpkg.org/Configuring_multiseat_X_workstation http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat

The Nvidia binary drivers work fine. The main thing you're doing is defining an extra keyboard and mouse attached to each Screen entry in the xorg.conf file. Restart X and voila...

This works easily with USB keyboard/mouse...

Here what i have been working for a while, it is a free for a two seat solution.

http://www2.userful.com/products/downloads/free-2-user

Regards

2010/2/23 Andy Graybeal andy.graybeal@casanueva.com

is anyone using a multi-seated configuration with CentOS?

I'm thinking about buying a two 2 headed nvidia card to run 4 separate monitors and 4 separate keyboards and mice. I don't mind using either proprietary or opensource nvidia drivers.

I'm looking for more information regarding centos and multiseated configurations. I've read a bit about fedora and ubuntu with multiseating, but I haven't found much with CentOS.

I'm fairly new to this so I would need pretty good documentation / hand holding to accomplish this.

Any information would be helpful.

-Andy

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