On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 18:38, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 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.

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


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