multiseat, -sharevts, and suspend/hibernate

[Matt Price]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:29 -0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu:
> > Matt Price wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> > <snip>
> >> So i'm wondering: does anyone out there have a multiseat system that
> >> actually can suspend and hibernate successfully?  And if so, do you use
> >> the -sharevts switch when starting X, or do you have some other trick
> >> for getting the x sessions to display simultaneously?  
> >>
> > 
> > Hi Matt,
> > 
> > I run a two-seater but never got suspend/hibernate to work.
> > Did you make progress?
> 
> Mix this kind of things (suspend/hibernate + multiseat) can be 
> explosive. Don't do that - at least until the KMS, with rootless 
> servers, definitely arrives.
> 
i never got it to work.  it's a shame, because i still consider
hibernate an essential element of the system.  there's work right now to
merge tuxonice, finally, but the truth is that this functionality has
never been taken seriously by linus or the other main kernel devs.
bummer, really.

matt


> 
> Cheers,
> 
>                      Tiago
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