KMS and Multiple X-sessions

Sat Apr 27 19:18:06 UTC 2013

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:06:53PM +0200, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
> 
> I'm used to run KDE in multi session mode and switch between users with 
> F9/F10/etc. on my home desktop computer.
> 
> I have run a few IvyBridge/SandyBridge graphics cards om laptops and at 
> work and knew you don't get back to console with i915kms but recently my 
> home computer broke down and just realised the user switch does not work 
> either.
> 
> Is there any trick to solve this now or do I have to wait for a more 
> mature version of KMS (and buy another computer for each user)?

The multi-session X requires support for multi-minors, which newer
DRM infrastructure lacks right now. I assume that Alexander (Cc:ed)
has patches which implement the multi-minors for dev/drm2.
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