Chris Howells wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Is there any real need these days for DRI to be limited to only working on one 
> X session?
> 
> I spoke to the maintainer of kdm, and he wants to implement a feature to allow 
> multiple people to use kdm to login easily, by using multiple X sessions to 
> switch between different users. Unfortunately this means that DRI will only 
> work on one of the sessions.
> 
> gdm can apparently do this already so would also suffer from the lack of 
> acceleration on all sessions as well.
> 
> NVidia'd propreitary drivers can apparently offer acceleration in multiple 
> sessions so it's a real shame that DRI can't :(
> 
> Is support for acceleration on multiple sessions likely to appear in the 
> future?

Nobody's really talked about this as a desired feature previously.  I'm not 
even sure that it *doesn't* work -- it shouldn't be too hard to get working if 
not.

Keith






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