Weston and multiseat

Daniel J Blueman daniel at quora.org
Sun Sep 14 23:50:49 PDT 2014


On 15 September 2014 14:43, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Daniel J Blueman <daniel at quora.org> wrote:
>> Has anyone met success using Wayland (or any other compositors)
>> multi-seat with a single GPU (Intel in my case), eg booting linux-3.16
>> with drm.rnodes=1?
>
> You cannot do this. DRM cards do not allow splitting modeset resources
> across masters (so far). There have been ideas how we could implement
> this, but no-one sent patches, yet. For now, you need to have multiple
> GPUs to run multiple seats.

Ok, or presumably Xephyr.

Thanks David!

Daniel
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