On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Andy Graybeal <andy.graybeal at 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...