Hi,
I don't know if this is possible.
I have a Matrox G400. DRI works splendidly with XFree86 4.1.0 and
kernel 2.4.9. Couldn't be better (well, except for strange things
when texture memory runs out, but anyway...)
My question is, can I do the following two things together?
- I would like to run an X session that I can do "whatever" in,
let's call this 'xwork'. Under xwork, I do all of my regular work,
browse web, icq, etc and maybe fire up UT in a window while I watch
IRC or other things. This works great. 1280x960x16bpp.
- I would also like to dedicate a X session to games-only and WINE,
and make this 800x600x32bpp. This way, I could be doing work in one
X session, and be able to switch over to this 'xgames' session. The
reason I want to do this is that so many windoze games take over the
whole screen, and this makes it impossible to get any work done
while they are running. If this would work, I could just
Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get to the "work" and then Ctrl-Alt-F8 to get back to
the full-screen game. This makes it easier to deal with games that
want to "grab" the mouse too.
Currently I have a 'xwork' script:
startx -- -depth 16 (Defaults to 1280x960 in this bpp)
and a 'xgames' script:
startx -- :1 -depth 24 (defaults to 800x600 in 24bpp)
I can start both X sessions no problem. Except, when I've already
started one and I start the other, the DRI messages barf as it
starts up and disables DRI. DRI still works in the one that was
started first. It doesn't matter which order I start them in, the
first one started gets preference.
So, is it possible to have two X sessions both with DRI enabled
running simultaneously? Or is this only a dream? :-)
If this isn't possible to do the way I'm doing it, could anyone
suggest an easier way to deal with games that hog the screen and
mouse (besides not playing them, of course....)
Thanks!
//dbz
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