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>This document explains how to configure your system for multiple local XFree users using the enchanted console/input subsystem in the Backstreet Ruby/ Ruby-2.6 kernel .</P
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>"Backstreet Ruby" or "BRuby" to refer to the back port to Linux 2.4</P
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>Every mention of Backstreet Ruby should be replaceable by Ruby/ Ruby-2.6 unless else mentioned.</P
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>Currently it is not possible to set up systems for multiple console users.</P
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>There are two ways of setting up multiple local XFree users:</P
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>Modify the kernel to ignore input from USB keyboards and add the handling of USB keyboards to a modified Xserver. This solution was developed by Miguel Freitas. Visit his page on the topic at <A
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>Use the Backstreet Ruby kernel which supports independent keyboards.</P
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>I'll concentrate on configuring a system for multiple local XFree users using the Backstreet Ruby kernel, but there are parts which can be used also on a system using the solution from Miguel Freitas.</P
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>The document is based on the file system layout of the Mandrake-Linux distribution, but I tried to make it distribution-independent by including information about the differences to other mainstream distributions like Debian, Red Hat and SuSE Linux.</P
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