[TAG] Talkback:124/smith.html

[Karl-Heinz Herrmann]

[ sorry -- forgot Eric in CC]

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:14:37 +0100
"Jimmy O'Regan" <jimregan at o2.ie> wrote:

> there is a fairly common misconception here; otherwise: USB is smart, 
> but not *that* smart - the fact that devices are located close to each 
> other physically is not communicated to the OS (that is, the system 
> can't tell that soundcard A is connected to keyboard A, soundcard B to 
> keyboard B, etc.), which is therefore unable to act accordingly.

If the keyboard is its own hub -- the usb tree hirarchy should be quite
able to mirror the physical proximity. I've not read the beginning of
this thread -- but I can imagine a setup with two heads and two
keyboards where "usb speakers" are dedicated to sound produced on one of
the heads. 

Just don't expect a standard distribution to do this for you -- this is
manual configuration and it can not be saved in the users settings (like
kde) if the users could be on either head.... pam extensions like group
setting on login for devices like audio  might be able help with the setup.


K.-H.