Defining seats

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at nokia.com
Wed Jul 18 03:32:12 PDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:38:48PM -0400, ext David Zeuthen wrote:
>  6. gdm would get the information from HAL. E.g. it would look for
>     all video cards somehow (initially just look for all PCI devices
>     with class 0x03 but need refinement for e.g. USB video cards)
>     and also look for input devices. Then it would get all seats from
>     CK. And then it would start up X servers for each seat where
>     a video card / input device combo is exclusive for that seat.
> 
>     (initially gdm would probably write out cheesy X.org configuration
>      files; at least until X.org can start up in an embryonic state).

Eh, if you're going to all this trouble, might as well just point Xorg
at a particular seat, and hack the support in.  Shouldn't be too hard,
once our config file parser is rewritten (unmitigated disaster).

Cheers,
Daniel
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