On 12/02/12 22:03, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 08:18:54PM +0400, Alexei Malinin wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Recently I tried to run two X servers on i386 OpenBSD-5.2:
>>
>> ttyC2$ startx -- :0    OK
>> ttyC3$ startx -- :1    but this server was aborted due to segmentation fault
>>
>> I succesfully ran two X servers on previous versions of i386 OpenBSD and
>> linux
>> without problems.
>>
>> Please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> hmm
>
> Since a long time, you need to run at securelevel -1 to be able to run
> 2 X servers at the same time. This is why this is not tested very
> often... 

Indeed, I ran two X servers at the same time a long time ago.
But from time to time I have a need to do so
(that is, to run one more X session on behalf of another person,
without destroyingmy active X session)...

> I just fixed the issue that makes the server segfault when it fails to
> mmap the MMIO region in the intel driver, but there are still other
> issues. Among them is probably the fact that the intel driver requires
> drm(4) to work, and I'm not sure if the latter can handle 2 X servers.

But what can you say about radeon driver?


--
Alexei Malinin

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