#multiseat — Public Fediverse posts

Wobei man fairerweise sagen muss, das #NVIDIA immerhin 10 Jahre lang einen #Linux-Treiber für die Karte angeboten hat 👍️

Mir gefiel die Karte, weil sie wenig Strom brauchte, ohne Lüfter auskam und sie auch in einer PCIe-x1 Variante für schmale PCIe-Slots erhältlich war.

So konnte ich auf meinem Linux-PC mit einem sparsamen 300W-Netzteil zwei Arbeitsplätze einrichten. #Multiseat

Gestern gelang der #Befreiungsschlag: Ich habe auf meinem #Multiseat-#Linux-System die #NVIDIA #Geforce GT710 durch #AMD #Radeon 6450 ersetzt und brauche den propietären Nvidia-Treiber nicht mehr. Die letzte Version, die die GT710 noch unterstützt, läuft nur bis #Kernel 6.6. und hat daher weitere Updates blockiert.

Die AMD-Karten werden problemlos vom #Opensource-Treiber #amdgpu unterstützt - Kernel 7.0 etc. können kommen 😏

Also got multiple keyboards to work! Made a little testing program where two people can play "scrabble" by moving their mouse and stamping letters! :D

#multiseat

Alright, with a little change in SDL to also return device IDs in "absolute mode", I can now write multi-mouse applications in the LÖVE game engine! \o/

Here's a little physics playground! Already a lot of fun with two people! :D

#love2d #sdl3 #multiseat

You know how computer systems used to have one central mainframe and multiple terminals throughout the building?

Did you know we can still do that? It's called a multiseat configuration, and I think we should do it more often in libraries and households.

Getting each user a PC statically allocates the compute. Getting each person a terminal dynamically allocates the compute.

The only problem is each terminal needs it's own GPU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration

#multiseat #Linux

On my 2nd job we're developing "MST" -- an open source/free software solution for multi-seat configuration:
https://gitlab.com/gkaz/mst

To test it in production we've deployed MST on several workplaces in our local college and it works quite nicely.

Currently I'm working on packaging MST for GNU #Guix (see "guix.scm" file in the repository.)

In 2020 I gave a talk (in Russian) about MST:
https://0x1.tv/20200208A

MST uses Qt for GUI and the #Scheme (#Guile) for its daemon.

#projects #multiseat

Super happy that my multiseat linux gaming workstation is finally able to run kde plasma with wayland on both seats. It took running the main git branch of lightdm, but *it's happening*! Prior to this, I was only ever able to run wayland on one seat, with the other still using xorg. 😌 gdm and sddm are not there yet, but I wish they were.
#linux #multiseat #lightdm

@kuketzblog
Das schöne Wetter ☔ habe ich dazu genutzt, auf meiner #multiseat-#linux-Box dem #pulseaudio Manieren beizubringen. Das läuft jetzt im systemmode und via Anpassungen an der #hwdb von #systemd haben die Sounddevices jetzt allgemeinverständliche Namen, z.B. "Anja's Kopfhörer" statt "Intel USB PNP device". So kann jetzt jeder User den Ton von jedem Programm an die richtige Ausgabe umleiten 👍

@wyliecoyoteuk I've been more and more considering a #MultiSeat setup too.
My SO @Siiw and I currently share a PC, but switching profiles can be a bit of a hassle, especially if you are in the middle of something, and we would at times like to use a computer at the same time.
Two powerful systems more and more feels like overkill, and multi-seat could indeed be a suitable solution.
Now watching this virtualized gaming system video by #LinusTechTips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJYMCbIbPk
@screenbeard