multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?
Steven J Newbury
steve at snewbury.org.uk
Tue Sep 9 07:49:15 PDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 07:38 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2008 07:24:38 am Steven J Newbury wrote:
>
> >
> > I the biggest thing needed currently from an Xorg perspective, with
> > respect to multiseat, would be the ability to have a HAL policy tie
> > specific devices to specific displays - unless I'm missing something?
>
> Multiseat is available, at least in beta.
>
> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Main_Page
>
> I've been running multiseat based on nvidia binary drivers for quite a while.
> It's an unsupported configuration but it works quite well. I'll try to get
> some time and document what I've done.
>
> It's not hard. I do some udev magic to ID the keyboard and then it's a piece
> of cake.
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Noriko"
> Screen 0 "Noriko" 0 0
> InputDevice "MouseNoriko" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "KeyboardNoriko" "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "SingleCard" "yes"
> Option "AIGLX" "true"
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "no"
> Option "xinerama" "false"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "KeyboardNoriko"
> Driver "evdev"
> Option "device" "/dev/input/by-user/KeyboardNoriko"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "MouseNoriko"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
>
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:4.1:1.0-mouse"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Noriko"
> VendorName "VSC"
> ModelName "E40-3"
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Noriko"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
> BoardName "Quadra"
> Option "ProbeAllGpus" "false"
> Option "Noint10" "true"
> Option "Twinview" "false"
> Option "MultiGPU" "off"
> Option "SLI" "off"
> Option "NvAGP" "3"
> BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
> EndSection
>
>
> This should get you started.
Actually, I already have a multiseat setup! :) It would be nice to have
working input hotplug though, with the ability to tie specific devices
to a specific seat. I'll take a look at ConsoleKit..
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