On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 18:38, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Chris Howells wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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.
How would it work with a single hardware lock? I've been thinking about making the lock per-screen to achieve this, but I'm probably just missing something. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
