[systemd-devel] Multi seats

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Laércio de Sousa <
laerciosousa at sme-mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
Any hint/pointer about this configuration?
TY


> >
>> > * 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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