[systemd-devel] Tagging NVIDIA graphics devices (with proprietary drivers) as "master-of-seat"

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 07.11.14 11:41, Laércio de Sousa (laerciosousa at sme-mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br) wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> For anyone interested in tagging NVIDIA graphics devices with proprietary
> drivers as "master-of-seat" for use with logind, I suggest the following
> udev rule:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="drm", KERNEL=="card[0-9]*", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x10de",
> DRIVERS=="nvidia", TAG+="master-of-seat"
> 
> If no /dev/dri/card* kernel devices are available in the system (e.g. if
> linux drm module is not loaded), the following alternative works, too:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x10de", DRIVER=="nvidia", TAG+="seat",
> TAG+="master-of-seat"
> 
> NOTE: These rules can be adapted for AMD proprietary drivers. Just replace
> "0x10de" with "0x1002" and "nvidia" with "fglrx".
> 
> I don't know if there's any upstream interest in shipping these rules with
> systemd (I guess not), but at least one downstream (Ubuntu) already ships
> them (with NVIDIA/AMD driver packages). I've already posted these rules in
> NVIDIA Developer Forums.

Yes, we don't want to ship rules for closed-source or out-of-tree
drivers. Rules for that should really be shipped with the drivers
package, instead.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat