Re: upgrading to wheezy - multiseat stops working

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Linux-Fan wrote:
> On 02/17/2013 11:57 PM, Sergey Spiridonov wrote:
> > Hi Debian
> >
> > I try to upgrade my working multi-seat installation to wheezy. I have
> > nvidia graphic cards. In squeeze I used gdm. It was working OK. I had
> > following entries in gdm.conf:
> >
> > 8<--------------------------------->8
>
> [...]
>
> > 8<--------------------------------->8
> >
> >
> > Nothing special...
> >
> > Wheezy does not have gdm. There is gdm3, but Google tells that it does
> > not support multi-seat. So, I took lightdm. Here is first lightdm.conf
> > (copy-paste from gdm):
> > 8<--------------------------------->8
>
> [...]
>
> > [Seat:0]
> > command=/usr/bin/X -novtswitch -sharevts vt8 -isolateDevice PCI:2:0:0
> > xserver-layout=seat0
> >
> > [Seat:1]
> > command=/usr/bin/X -novtswitch -sharevts vt8 -isolateDevice PCI:3:0:0
> > xserver-layout=seat1
> >
> > 8<--------------------------------->8
> >
> > This does not work. I reduced X command as much as possible. When I look
> > at ps output, I can see that isolateDevice is filtered by lightdm. Also
> > lightdm adds his own options to X, so reduced command line looks like
> > the following:
> >
> > [Seat:0]
> > command=/usr/bin/X
> > xserver-layout=seat1
> >
> > [Seat:1]
> > command=/usr/bin/X -sharevts
> > xserver-layout=seat0
>
> This topic recently appeared in a German computer magazine: 


do you have a link for that?


Although the
> description was for Ubuntu, it might help you that they recommended to
> end the command line with a '#' to make the added options becomme
> comments, like
>
> command=/usr/bin/X -novtswitch -sharevts vt8 -isolateDevice PCI:2:0:0 #
>
> or similar.