[olug] Web kiosk

[Jay Swackhamer]

yes, you can have multi-head multi-input.

We setup a dual-headed workstation when I was working with the  
Mavradio at UNO.

I used to get email/calls from a mobile kiosk/web center setup in  
Israel that had four heads and input setup on each machine in a  
Semi-Trailer so that they could get the maximum amount of revenue from  
a smaller PC/Power footprint.

You can run multiple X servers or just have one X server with each  
screen being addressed separately. i.e. :0.0 :0.1 and assign the  
keyboard/mouse dev to each screen.

My truck has a multi-head setup with each display having it's 'mouse'  
being the touchscreen attached to that display.

The display I had at the shop was setup similar, one desktop but  
discrete displays so I could put pictures/ads/etc on the lcd built  
into the wall, and demo mythtv on the other screen, using an Nvidia  
dual-display card.


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Quoting Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com>:

> Heh.  Aric's link was the one I had seen (just not from that post).  GMail
> fail for hiding the message, and Dave fail for not reading...
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
>
>> You can run multiple X servers on a single box, I believe.  Everything is
>> just much more explicit in how you tie inputs to displays, etc.  As-in,
>> explicitly referencing the mouse and keyboard for each display, instead of
>> depending on HAL or what not to handle it for you.
>>
>> I'll try to find a link which references this, but I'm fairly sure I've
>> read about it before.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM, T. J. Brumfield   
>> <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 4 heads on a Linux box is probably feasible, but having 4 sets of
>>> input to one PC that aren't interfering with each other is another
>>> thing. You can set one PC as an X server perhaps, and have 4 thin
>>> clients connecting to it. But ultimately, I don't think one PC can
>>> handle the input from 4 people at once.
>>>
>>> -- T. J.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>>> > Hmmmm that's an interesting idea.
>>> > I have not tried it but in theory
>>> > http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html
>>> >
>>> > How does Linux handle multihead videocards?
>>> > In Windows ATI cards show up as 2 devices and Nvidia cards show as 1.
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>>> > webtrekker at cox.net
>>> > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:43 PM
>>> > To: Omaha Linux User Group
>>> > Subject: [olug] Web kiosk
>>> >
>>> > Hi All,
>>> > Looking for ideas on how to create a small (4 station/users) web kiosk
>>> setup
>>> > to allow for on-site user registration.  The idea is to have a single
>>> Linux
>>> > box that would allow 4 different users to access a specific website to
>>> > register for a conference.  I'm not sure how to go about attaching 4
>>> > keyboards, 4 mice and 4 monitors to a single computer while using a
>>> small
>>> > custom-locked Linux distro that only allows access to the registration
>>> > website.
>>> > I have found products like nComputing's X350 kit
>>> > (http://ncomputing.com/Solutions/Xseries.aspx) which looks like it
>>> would
>>> > work, but could this be built with standard components?
>>> > Worse case, we could grab 4 old laptop from a recycler but would rather
>>> not
>>> > spend money on old hardware for a single use.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for any and all suggestions,
>>> > Patrick
>>> >
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