[svlug] X Sessions

[Marco Walther]

On 11/13/2014 08:57 PM, Scott DuBois wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 07:59 PM, Marco Walther wrote:
>> I just tried it with my laptop and it worked as expected. Running
>> Kubuntu 14.04 with the binary NVidia driver, my normal display lives on
>> vt7. Logging in @ vt2:/dev/tty2 and doing a startx :1 got me a complete
>> new session (with my normal user). The DISPLAY environment there was :1
>> as expected.
>>
>> -- Marco
>>
> Dude you ROCK! Now we're getting somewhere. Starting to look like maybe
> switching to NVidia drivers maybe?
What's your graphics chip set? That might really be a function of the 
graphics chip set/driver .... :-( Something has to keep the first 
session alive while you create the n-th. And all the programs running in 
all sessions expect `live' display access. So n X-displays require the 
chip set to accept n*load.

Mine in a almost four year old Lenovo W510:

[ 43679.724] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 880M (GT216GL) at 
PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[ 43679.724] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 1048576 kBytes
[ 43679.724] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.16.5f.00.0d
[ 43679.724] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X


> I'm on 14.04 as well. Session found
> at VT8 right?
Yes.

Can you try something?
* In your first X session, can you lock your screen. Do you see an 
option to start a new session on the lock-screen?  I do;-)

Thanks,
-- Marco

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