Hello, I would like to comment on a multi-seat configuration under Linux (xorg-1.7.7, debian squeeze amd64, native screen, no Xephyr or so, two cards with intel and nouveau drivers).
It should be noted somewhere that in a multi-seat configuration, the console's DPMS manager could conflict with Xorg's and at least should be disabled (I have no better solution so far). This is probably because evdev is not propagating mice and keyboards events to the console power manager. In details, my understanding is that with X DPMS activated or disabled (using good options "NoPM, BlankTime, SuspendTime, Offtime, DPMS" and with xset), with the multiseat configuration grabbing keyboards and mice, nothing prevents console's power manager to detect inactivity and to switch off at least one monitor. I send this message here, because it has been a pain to find this out, and in the first place bugs from Xorg / drivers were suspected. Indeed the behaviour was sometimes, after a certain period of inactivity, the going back of one of the two seats to the text console, with X mouse (the arrow) still working and unresponsive keyboard. It is now working and this is great. I thank everybody for everything. david _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
