Multiple X.org configs, single machine

[Thomas Charron]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm guessing Linux would be pretty happy, with one exception..  X.
>   You'll have to worry about Ethernet, sound, video, and the VMware
>  tools, I think.

  Ethernet isn't as much of an issue because I'm using NetworkManager
to handle the network.  It handles 'profiles' pretty well, recording
the existance and configuration of network interfaces based on how
they're configured.  Combined with KNetworkManager, it works well.

>   The VMware tools might just cough and die when booted on real
>  hardware, so that might be a non-issue (or only be cosmetic, i.e.,
>  some puke in the boot messages).

  Yes, after testing some things, it just belches out and says 'No
VMWare, I'm going to sleep now'.

>   For video, recent versions of X can run without a config file, or
>  almost can.  You might starting X without a config file present, to
>  see if it just works.  Or maybe commenting out the hardware specific
>  parts of your config file to see what happens.  If that fails, you
>  should be able to do something like grep'ing the output of "lspci" to
>  find the video card (real or virtual), and then passing a parameter or
>  setting a symlink to specify the correct X config file.

  Haven't figured that one out yet.  My end 'goal' is to have full
OpenGL acceleration of X regardless of the environment it's brought up
under.  Not sure if I can specify both device entries and have it work
or not.

>  > Windows XP just isn't happy booting off of two different machines
>   What happens?  It's been a *long* time, but I seem to remember doing
>  this with an older version of Windows.  I can't remember if it was
>  Windows 2000 or 98, though, and 98 is a completely different beast vs
>  NT (2000/XP).

  Windows requires reactivation.  Profiles can handle the hardware
differences without a problem, but it detects more then a couple
components are different, requires a phone home or a real phone call.
Even then, you can only reactivate the same copy 3 times.

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-- Thomas