Defining seats

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:29:18PM -0400, ext Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 7/10/07, William Jon McCann <mccann at jhu.edu> wrote:
> > We need to be a little careful that we don't interfere with all the
> > nice Xorg display hot plugging work.  So, how can we cleanly determine
> > if a display should be part of a new seat or be attached to (or a
> > clone of) an existing one?
> 
> Seats do in any case require separate X servers, right ? So if a monitor is
> hotplugged into an existing X server, it automatically belongs to an existing
> seat. Or do I miss something ?

Yep, correct you are.  And since there's no real sensible way to share a
GPU between X servers (although this becomes more feasible with
kernel-based modesetting and AIGLX, but still), this basically means one
video card per seat, which makes life easier.

Cheers,
Daniel
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