hi, I'm very close to getting a new multiseat system working, with 2 nvidia cards, using the closed-source drivers. It runs a nearly-unmodified ubuntu jaunty, with xorg 7.4~5ubuntu18 packages. I've followed several howtos, most closely http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiubuntu/multiubuntu.html, with the result that I have a perfectly functioning xorg.conf, gdm, and sound. GDM runs 2 servers; one attaches to Layout0, which uses only Screen0 (my lcd monitor), while the other attaches to Layout1, which uses only Screen 1 (my TV-out). login works fine and all that. The only thing that's missing now is the capacity to suspend to ram or disk while both gdm servers are up and running.
first, it seems that gdm or X inhibits suspend/hibernate when there are two servers running, doubtless for good reason. Nonetheless I can trigger a manual suspend with pm-suspend or pm-hibernate. Suspend seemsto go fine, but on resume both monitors are blanked and I can't bring them back up even with /etc/init.d/gdm restart. This reminds me of the bad old days, especially since I'm usingthe nvidia drivers (whcih I seem to have to do, if I want multiseat to work. The issue seems to be with the "-sharevts" switch that (from what I can tell) needs to be passed to the x server in order to ensure that both X sessions are visible at the same time. Without that switch, one gdm server seems to run on VT7, and the other on VT9; if you switch from one vt to the other, you can watch the two screens flicker on and off, but you can never see both at the same time. 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? Look forward to hearing your advice! thanks as always, matt -- Matt Price matt.pr...@utoronto.ca _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
