[systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 28.05.15 13:53, Mario Limonciello (mario_limonciello at dell.com) wrote:

> 
> 
> On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>You
> >>>can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on.
> >Yes you can.
> Wait, what?  No, you can't.
> 
> 1) Not everyone has multiple monitors plugged into multiple GPU's.
> 
> 2) The system ships with a dGPU and supports an xGPU.  If you remove the
> dGPU from the chassis, all you have is the xGPU.  If you unplug xGPU,
> there's nothing left..

gdm has multi seat support btw: it will spawn X servers on all seats
capable of graphics. if you unplug all graphics cards than this simply
means that your number of graphics-capable seats went from > 0 to
0. That's all. And if you plug in a graphics card then, then it goes
from 0 to 1 again and you get a fresh new login prompt on it.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat