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Xinerama and multi-seat

Posted May 5, 2011 21:18 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Xinerama and multi-seat by samlh
Parent article: Systemd and ConsoleKit

And what happens if you've got one video card, and want to run multi-seat on multiple displays on that card?

That's the situation I'm in - I can run two monitors, one on VGA, one on HDMI, and want to have two mice and two keyboards too.

Cheers,
Wol

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Xinerama and multi-seat

Posted May 6, 2011 1:03 UTC (Fri) by samlh (subscriber, #56788) [Link]

You could try use the experimental "ZaphodHeads" option to split one card into multiple SCREENs, but I haven't tested it myself.

See this page on the Nouveau wiki for more information on the whole mess:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop

Xinerama and multi-seat

Posted May 6, 2011 14:46 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Great!

Thanks, I'll have to investigate.

Cheers,
Wol