[multiseat] hard freeze when running "X -arguments... :1"

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:43:04AM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Tiago Vignatti schrieb:
> >> So far I have one problem: my computer freezes whenever I want to use 
> >> GDM as a desktop manager. On the other hand, everything works fine if 
> >> I use KDM.
> >>
> >> Closer investigation turned up that the freeze does not really depend 
> >> on the desktop manager, but on the order X servers are started.
> > 
> > Some days ago I answered to you in what mess we're living (search for 
> > <494EE380.1040506 at c3sl.ufpr.br>). You won't be able to initialize more 
> > than one X server so soon.
> 
> "Not being able to initialize more than one X server" doesn't sound like 
> a right direction of development to me, or?

'Direction of development' and 'current unfortunate reality' are two
entirely different things.  We're working on it; patches would be more
than welcome: kernel modesetting and VGA arbitration are currently works
in progress (at least, for Linux), and we'd more than welcome help with
both.

Cheers,
Daniel
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