[olug] Web kiosk

[John Hobbs]

Big Brain in the old market used to have multi-head, multi-input Fedora Core
setup for browsing their designs.
They're pretty nice down there, you might ask where they got it from and who
set it up.

http://www.bigbrainomaha.com/

- John Hobbs

john at velvetcache.org

http://www.velvetcache.org/


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com>wrote:

> 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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