Re: upgrading to wheezy - multiseat stops working

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Linux-Fan wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 02:36 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > 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? 
>
> With a quick look at the end of the article, I found
> http://www.ct.de/1305158 which only has the configuration examples of
> the article.

Should be helpful for the OP. Thanks.

Hugo