[systemd-devel] Multi seats

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Laércio de Sousa
<laerciosousa at sme-mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br> wrote:
> Hi Arnaud!
>
> I've been researching systemd-based multi-seat setups with non-KMS video
> drivers for a couple of years.
>
> In principle, yes, you can set up a multi-seat system with proprietary
> NVIDIA drivers, provided you:
>
> * provide a suitable udev rule to tag your NVIDIA card as "master-of-seat"
> (they are tagged by default if using Nouveau drivers). Examples:
>
>     SUBSYSTEM=="drm", KERNEL=="card[0-9]*", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x10de",
> DRIVERS=="nvidia", TAG+="master-of-seat"
>
>     SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x10de", DRIVER=="nvidia",
> TAG+="seat", TAG+="master-of-seat"
>
> * Have xorg-server 1.16 or newer installed
>
> * Provide a suitable xorg.conf for your NVIDIA card, not forgetting to put
> MatchSeat entries in Device/Screen/ServerLayout sections.
>
> * Have LightDM 1.12 or newer installed (if you don't use GNOME)

In fact I was wrong in my presentation. Login window is now managed by
GDM in Fedora 22, not Lightdm. I guess I do not need to install and
log with Lightdm, am I right?
>
> Att.
>
> 2015-08-28 7:58 GMT-03:00 arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com>:
>>
>> One year ago, I tried to setup multi seats, see this thread[0]. By
>> that time, I gave up as my configuration was not made for such a
>> fetaure.
>> Now I am back with all the needed tools to do it easily (I think so):
>> - Fedora 22
>> - lightdm & GDM
>> - an USB 3 plugable dockin station
>>
>> As good how-to on this topic are few, I wonder a few things:
>> - is the proprietary Nvidia driver Ok or shall I indeed use Nouveau
>> (my card is Nvidia one)?
>> - are the lightdm/Xorg setup configuring accordingly or shall I edit
>> manually the conf files?
>>
>> I understand the whole principle to $ loginctl attach seatNumber
>> /device/apth.
>>
>> Thank you for a few hints.
>>
>>
>>
>> [0]http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-August/022403.html
>>
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