multiseat -- still trying...

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:34:04PM -0800, dave madden wrote:
> In the continuing saga of me trying to get multiseat running so two
> people can use my stupid-fast machine instead of buying & running a
> second box...
> 
> I couldn't get multiseat with two video outputs on a Radeon card, with
> either the proprietary or X.Org driver.  I found an old Voodoo3 card
> and got xorg.conf set up so starting "-layout Seat0" and "-layout
> Seat1" work properly (one at a time!) but if I start one while the
> other is already going, the new server causes the old server to blank
> (but not die).  If I terminate the new server, the old one comes back
> to life.  It doesn't seem to matter whether I start the Radeon server
> or the Voodoo3 server first.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas where to look, or would be willing to check
> configs / log files / whatever information I can collect?  I'm using
> 6.8.2 on linux-2.6.9 (there's something wrong with my 6.9.0 that
> breaks Japanese text input, but I have a 6.9.0 build to test with if
> that will help...)

Look into the -isolateDevice option, as well as -novtswitch and
-sharevts.

Cheers,
Daniel