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This is awesome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration I am super curious about your set

by seg_lol 10mo ago

This is awesome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration I am super curious about your setup. I played with MS years ago, but I lost the need. It is a super cool tech that I'd love to see its efficiencies embraced in some way.

z3t4 10mo ago
Install an old GPU, Connected a monitor to the extra GPU, connect mouse and keyboard, Use the loginctl command to list available devices/usb ports and attach them to a seat. I suggest using Arch linux although loginctl should be available in all distributions using SystemD now. If you don't have enough USB ports you can use a USB hub, some monitors comes with USB hub. And some with built in sound, or you can use wireless headset. My main issue was that driver support was dropped for my oldest GPU card. So one day when I upgraded the OS it just stopped working. So to be on the safe side get another GPU like the one you already have.
- ngcc_hk 10mo ago
  Sorry being IT guy I wondered about the logic. I understand the need to align. But if one fail all fail and children like customers … not the patient kind? Or you have two system within each … then across the …. Sorry cannot stop my mind spinning.
  - kiddico 10mo ago
    The kids will get over it lol
  - z3t4 10mo ago
    This is also a reason why I have 4 separate stations now, if I have to upgrade hardware only one station is down at a time. And while you can get a 3 GPU system at budget, a 4 GPU system will get expensive, at least last time I checked. It would be interesting to look into using old used ai servers for multi seat purposes.
- seg_lol 10mo ago
  So for a GPU with say 4 display ports, I can run 4 sessions off the same GPU provided I can get enough USB ports.
  - z3t4 10mo ago
    It might be possible one way or another, although I used separate gfx cards. You might find a different x server that lets you do it using a single card. I suggest getting an extra hard drive, install grub so you can dual boot, install the experimental OS on the extra hard drive and start fiddling. I also dual booted different OS in order to experiment with machine learning when the kids was sleeping, as I got multiple gpus, although the old ones where crap it was a good learning exercise.
  - ThatPlayer 10mo ago
    Modern GPUs aren't constrained by the number of ports. You can use DisplayPort MST (hubs) to output multiple displays off a single port. But most GPUs are limited to being able to run 4 displays. Except some AMD Eyefinity can do 6

by seg_lol 10mo ago

z3t4 10mo ago

Install an old GPU, Connected a monitor to the extra GPU, connect mouse and keyboard, Use the loginctl command to list available devices/usb ports and attach them to a seat. I suggest using Arch linux although loginctl should be available in all distributions using SystemD now. If you don't have enough USB ports you can use a USB hub, some monitors comes with USB hub. And some with built in sound, or you can use wireless headset. My main issue was that driver support was dropped for my oldest GPU card. So one day when I upgraded the OS it just stopped working. So to be on the safe side get another GPU like the one you already have.

ngcc_hk 10mo ago
Sorry being IT guy I wondered about the logic. I understand the need to align. But if one fail all fail and children like customers … not the patient kind? Or you have two system within each … then across the …. Sorry cannot stop my mind spinning.
- kiddico 10mo ago
  The kids will get over it lol
- z3t4 10mo ago
  This is also a reason why I have 4 separate stations now, if I have to upgrade hardware only one station is down at a time. And while you can get a 3 GPU system at budget, a 4 GPU system will get expensive, at least last time I checked. It would be interesting to look into using old used ai servers for multi seat purposes.
seg_lol 10mo ago
So for a GPU with say 4 display ports, I can run 4 sessions off the same GPU provided I can get enough USB ports.
- z3t4 10mo ago
  It might be possible one way or another, although I used separate gfx cards. You might find a different x server that lets you do it using a single card. I suggest getting an extra hard drive, install grub so you can dual boot, install the experimental OS on the extra hard drive and start fiddling. I also dual booted different OS in order to experiment with machine learning when the kids was sleeping, as I got multiple gpus, although the old ones where crap it was a good learning exercise.
- ThatPlayer 10mo ago
  Modern GPUs aren't constrained by the number of ports. You can use DisplayPort MST (hubs) to output multiple displays off a single port. But most GPUs are limited to being able to run 4 displays. Except some AMD Eyefinity can do 6