On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 07:38 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 07:24:38 am Steven J Newbury wrote: > > > > > I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with > > respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie > > specific devices to specific displays - unless I'm missing something? > > Multiseat is available, at least in beta. > > http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Main_Page > > I've been running multiseat based on nvidia binary drivers for quite a while. > > It's an unsupported configuration but it works quite well. I'll try to get > some time and document what I've done. > > It's not hard. I do some udev magic to ID the keyboard and then it's a piece > of cake. > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Noriko" > Screen 0 "Noriko" 0 0 > InputDevice "MouseNoriko" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "KeyboardNoriko" "CoreKeyboard" > Option "SingleCard" "yes" > Option "AIGLX" "true" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "no" > Option "xinerama" "false" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "KeyboardNoriko" > Driver "evdev" > Option "device" "/dev/input/by-user/KeyboardNoriko" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "MouseNoriko" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > > Option "Device" > "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:4.1:1.0-mouse" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Noriko" > VendorName "VSC" > ModelName "E40-3" > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Noriko" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > BoardName "Quadra" > Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false" > Option "Noint10" "true" > Option "Twinview" "false" > Option "MultiGPU" "off" > Option "SLI" "off" > Option "NvAGP" "3" > BusID "PCI:6:0:0" > EndSection > > > This should get you started. Actually, I already have a multiseat setup! :) It would be nice to have working input hotplug though, with the ability to tie specific devices to a specific seat. I'll take a look at ConsoleKit..
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