[systemd-devel] Multi seats

[Laércio de Sousa]

You're right. If you use GNOME, GDM is ready for you. In any other case,
use LightDM >= 1.12. Automatic multi-seat support for SDDM (used by KDE and
LXQt) is still WIP.

2015-08-28 8:42 GMT-03:00 arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com>:

> 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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> >>
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> >
> >
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