multi x users

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:36 +0000, Martin Schmeisser wrote:
> i have a NVidia GeForce FX 5500 with 2 outputs (one VGA, one DVI). I got
> it to run wit NView or Xinerama multihead. However i would love to have
> actually 2 xservers, each for one monitor and each with its own mouse
> and keyboard.
> 
> I understand that this has been done with XFree. One of the desciptions
> used and a kernel patch called ruby the other one didnt [1][2].

Ubuntu already incorporates the 'multiseat' package which sets this all
up.  We didn't patch the kernel at all with the Ruby stuff, but instead
wrote a few patches to Xorg (which have all been merged upstream for
6.9/7.0) to fix it all up.

However, it doesn't apply to you, sadly.  You can't drive a single video
card (two outputs or not) with two different X servers, so you're
basically limited to one session.  Unless, of course, you did some
amazing acrobatics with Xdmx or so ...