On 2 April 2011 16:46, Yan Seiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Morton wrote: >> >> ok, thanks for that. the issue, with using a single dual head display >> rather than using multi-seat is that power management will turn on >> both screens if one screen is in use. I would rather have only the >> screens being used being switched on via powermanagement. >> > > AFAIK there's no way to turn each screen on independently. I have three > heads; one running myth on a separate card and two running Xephyr on top of > a singe X session. I had to disable power management on all of them to make > it work. >
oh! so if you wiggle one of the mice all three screens turn on? >> So, I guess I go back to asking how I setup multi-seat.. I have played >> with it all day, looking at using kdm and multi-seat display manager >> (mdm, it doesnt mention anything after ubuntu 8.04) and I cant get >> either to work with 10.10 on my laptop (although I would of course be >> looking to implement on 10.04LTS on the server. >> > > mdm is a few scripts that do some fancy stuff to find the root window and to > hook the right input devices to the right screen. They don't work with the > proprietary nvidia drivers. oh > I hacked mdm to work with nvidia; there's a > page in their wiki on that. > phew! you got me worried there; even so, this is quite a pa-larva isnt it? I know multi-seat is still a little niche but I thought it would be used quite a lot in education and training environments so I thought there would be something out there... on some niche distro, but I cant find anything! ;-) > If you're good with shell scripts, you can hack the scripts to work with > your distro. I think there's one binary helper app. > >> (btw; the idea is to use a single remote and "it just work" for the users. >> > > Single remote for both screens? Or single remote for each screen? > sorry, yeah I should have been more clear; a single remote (a ps3 bd remote) for each viewing location; and control it all through it; volume, watching, music, pictures, etc. all through myth, controlling video and if the system is left on the menu screen for a couple of minutes the screen goes into standby / power management on that screen only. the other screens that are in use would stay on! _______________________________________________ [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]
