On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 at 17:28, J T Dsouza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Rajeev R. K. <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 11:20, J T Dsouza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Has anyone done a multi seat setup? > >> > > > > I have tested the same, with a few caveats. My test setup was based on > > Fedora 26, with consolekit used to manage seats and the input device > > pairings. The Caveat was that each seat had to have an independent > display > > card/device. Multiple outputs connected to a single card cannot be used > to > > do a multi seat configuration(At least not yet. but is being worked upon > by > > me). > > Trying it out on a gigabyte AB350+ Ryzen 5 2600gpu. Which has 3 > outputs. With loginctl I can split the devices between 2 seats quite > easily. > > There are you using the On-Board Display ports as seat 0, and the addon GPU ports as seat1? Or do you have multiple on-board ports with a single display controller serviing multiple seats? Could you share your 'loginctl seat-status' output?
Thanks and Regards R. K. Rajeev Ph : +91-9323802020 > Using this as a guide > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat > > > > >> I am trying to do it with lightdm which is supposed to have built in > >> ability for multiseat. > >> > > > > I tested it back then with both LightDM and GDM, both of which had built > in > > multiseat support in F26. I intend to be running some more experiments on > > the same once I'm back in mumbai in a couple of weeks. Will report more > > details then. > > > > I am able to get two mouse pointers but not independent. > >> I get two keyboards but working as one. > >> Both screens are controlled by one user with one single login instead > >> of getting two independent lightdm login greeters. > >> > >> my lightdm.conf > >> > >> [LightDM] > >> start-default-seat=true > >> #[Seat:*] > >> [Seat:0] > >> xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :0 > >> xserver-layout=HDMI > >> > >> [Seat:1] > >> xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :1 > >> xserver-layout=VGA > >> > >> > >> my xorg.conf (relevant parts) > >> > >> Section "ServerLayout" > >> Identifier "HDMI" > >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > >> Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" > >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > >> # Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" > >> # InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" > >> # InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > >> EndSection > >> > >> #Section "ServerLayout" > >> # Identifier "VGA" > >> # Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > >> # Screen 1 "Screen1" 1367 0 > >> # InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" > >> # InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > >> #EndSection > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Keyboard0" > >> Driver "kbd" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Keyboard1" > >> Driver "kbd" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Mouse0" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "auto" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" > >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Mouse1" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "auto" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" > >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "Monitor" > >> Identifier "Monitor0" > >> VendorName "LG" > >> ModelName "20MK400H-BB" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "Monitor" > >> Identifier "Monitor1" > >> VendorName "LG" > >> ModelName "20MP48HB-BB" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "Device" > >> ### Available Driver options are:- > >> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > >> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", > >> ### <percent>: "<f>%" > >> ### [arg]: arg optional > >> #Option "Accel" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] > >> #Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str> > >> #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> > >> #Option "DRI3" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "DRI" # <i> > >> #Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "TearFree" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>] > >> Identifier "Card0" > >> Driver "amdgpu" > >> BusID "PCI:6:0:0" > >> Screen 0 > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "Device" > >> ### Available Driver options are:- > >> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > >> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", > >> ### <percent>: "<f>%" > >> ### [arg]: arg optional > >> #Option "Accel" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] > >> #Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str> > >> #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> > >> #Option "DRI3" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "TearFree" # [<bool>] > >> #Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>] > >> Identifier "Card1" > >> Driver "amdgpu" > >> BusID "PCI:6:0:1" > >> Screen 1 > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "Screen" > >> Identifier "Screen0" > >> Device "Card0" > >> Monitor "Monitor0" > >> SubSection "Display" > >> Viewport 0 0 > >> Depth 24 > >> EndSubSection > >> EndSection > >> > >> Section "Screen" > >> Identifier "Screen1" > >> Device "Card1" > >> Monitor "Monitor1" > >> SubSection "Display" > >> Viewport 0 0 > >> Depth 24 > >> EndSubSection > >> EndSection > >> -- > >> https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > > > Thanks and Regards > > > > R. K. Rajeev > > Ph : +91-9323802020 > > -- > > https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- > https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
