Multiseat gaming box

Creator: Strages Status: planning Born On: 21:34, 29 April 2013 (CDT) Last Updated: 19:43, 02 May 2013 (CDT)

Overview

A multiseat (separate monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound, and terminal per seat) linux box for gaming. FPSes(Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D), Armagetron Advanced, etc.

Possible names

• Quintesson
  • would technically have to be a five seat box....

Attempt #1

• Foxconn WinFast 6150K8MA-8EKRS
  • RAM
    • 4GB DDR RAM
  • Video
    • Onboard nVidia GeForce 6100 series chip
      • VGA out
    • Galaxy GeForce GTS250 PCI Express 16x card
      • VGA
      • DVI
      • HDMI
  • Audio
    • OnBoard 5.1

Expectation	Notes	Actuality	Notes
3 seats	Onboard VGA, OnCard VGA and DVI
Route stereo audio to each seat out the 5.1 ports	Pulseaudio running as root with slave pulseaudio instances per seat

References

• Configuring multiseat X workstation
• MultiseatX
• How do I configure Multi-Seat on CentOS 6.2?
• Xorg multiseat
• Build a Six-Headed, Six-User Linux System
• Software/systemd/multiseat
• GLTron release date 1998
• Single graphics card multi-seat Ubuntu Linux