[gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now
76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but
decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started
wondering about using a single computer for two separate people. Can X
do this?

   Neither person taxes the computer at all so performance is not
likely to be a big deal with them. Please don't worry too much about
that. There is plenty of disk space, etc. My mom just uses Hotmail and
does very little else with her old Windows ME box which she hates due
to pop-ups, etc.

   If I added a second VGA adapter, PCI based, and specifically made
sure it was something different from the NVidia he has installed, and
then added a USB keyboard and mouse, whereas his current mouse and
keyboard are ps/2, then could the new monitor and new keyboard mouse
be linked up to create a second gdm login screen?

   Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Cheers,
Mark

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