On Tuesday 18 November 2008 04:50:33 you wrote: > Kārlis Repsons escreveu: > > In general it would be nice, if multiseat workstation administrator could > > switch to vt[1-6]. Does Xorg support it somehow and is it possible to > > implement (well, kindly ask someone to do it) such option? Otherwise > > multiseat on Linux is quite problematic, if no ssh is used... > > (also I noticed a problem with multiseat, that, if I stop X and login > > manager permanently, I still could not switch to any vts) > > It's complicated. Pci-rework, through libpciaccess, cleaned a bunch of > the mess that was living in our server. But that wasn't good enough. > There's still some issues that don't let us remove the entirely Xorg's > pci layer. And this is the point: there's a lot of pci users (VGACon, > framebuffer, Xorg and possibly others) in your system fighting for the > same piece of hardware. > > With lucky the kernel based modesetting will let the code more nice and > trivial to remove more things from the server. Dave obtained a very nice > demo recently starting a rootless X server. So is that kind of "work in progress" or will never be fixed?
> > > Cheers, > > PS: really, try to avoid a single machine to configure your multiseat > box. No one needs text console in our current world. Well, this far I have two options: ssh or restart with console framebuffer-enabled kernel and other X settings, both of which are cumbersome solutions for dualseat. Can I ask one more thing: what is causing those problems with console framebuffer on x86_64? If that thing is in kernel, I get messed-up screen time after time and console cursor blinking on primary video device constantly... Regards _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg