Re: Multiseat setup

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.

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
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>
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>
> R. K. Rajeev
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