[systemd-devel] multiseat broken with udl.ko - Fedora 18

[poma]

On 01/23/2013 04:16 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sat, 19.01.13 04:24, poma (pomidorabelisima at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 01/18/2013 07:23 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> On Fri, 18.01.13 16:57, poma (pomidorabelisima at gmail.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bonne journée,
>>>>
>>>> If brackets can be of any help.
>>>> Lennart, have you tested this *new* Fedora's setup, or is this some kind
>>>> of zen puzzle?
>>>>
>>>> Once upon a time, Fedora 17
>>>> # CONFIG_DRM_UDL is not set
>>>> CONFIG_FB_UDL=m
>>>> multi-seat-x with udlfb.ko(DisplayLink kernel framebuffer driver) worked
>>>> like a charm.
>>>>
>>>> Present time, Fedora 18
>>>> CONFIG_DRM_UDL=m
>>>> # CONFIG_FB_UDL is not set
>>>> multi-seat-x with udl.ko is broken.
>>>
>>> There have been some changes since the display link driver now is a
>>> proper dri driver. We had tested that a while ago and there were some
>>> issues but I thought they had all been fixed. I haven't tested this in
>>> the 2 months or so since then.
>>
>> This sounds like something that was not a priority. Am I right?
>> Yeah, I understand that udl supersede and "…is based in large parts on
>> udlfb.c…"(Dave Airlie).
> 
> We have a lot of stuff to do, and only limited work time. This stuff is
> as much a priority as most other stuff we work on -- or as little, if you
> will. 
> 
> It's open source. If this matters and is urgent to you best way is
> usually to work on it yourself, otherwise you have to accept that people
> will work according to their own work schedules.
> 
> Sorry if that's disappointing.
> 
> Lennart
> 

You're completely right ;)
Ain't disappoint.

Cheers,
poma