[systemd-devel] Multi seats setup How-to

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 06.09.15 13:01, arnaud gaboury (arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com) wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 03.09.15 13:26, arnaud gaboury (arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >> I plan to use the systemd mutli-seat features, but I am not sure at
> >> all how I must proceed and in waht order. I understand the main
> >> principle for mouse and keyboard: detect the device then
> >> $ loginctl attach seatNumber DevicePath
> >> As for the graphic card, I am lost.
> >>
> >> OS: Fedora 22
> >> gdm
> >> 1 nvidia card
> >> 1 USB3 plugable dockin station for the second monitor
> >
> > I presume this hardware is not marked for "auto seat" yet, using
> > udev's ID_AUTO_SEAT property. If you let me know USB product and
> > vendor id of this device (as reported by lsusb in hex) I'll add it to
> > the default rules files. If that's done then just plugging in the
> > device will make it a new seat, without any configuration.
> 
> 
> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 17e9:4323 DisplayLink

The docking station probably is an USB hub with the displaylink device
connected to it. the vendor/product ID i am interested in is the id of
that hub, i.e. the top-level device in the docking station device.

Lennart

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