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creating 2 unique xorg sessions?

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You know how many XGL/Compiz how-tos call to create a XGL and Xorg configuration pretty much and then use a unique session for each...using the login manager (gdm in most cases) to switch between the 2.

Also as many of you know ati's FGLRX drivers are plagued with hell, yet they are required to be able to get some game on in linux.... however with those drivers loaded any of the suspend (to disk or to ram) doesn't work...yielding the flexibility of just putting a lappy to sleep to carry it short term useless....requiring a shut down / boot up every single session...which is really a pain in the arse-hole.

so now i am thinking if it would be possible to use the XGL method to create 2 unique xorg sessions....one to use radeon, the other to use fglrx as device drivers....so that when gdm comes up i can choose if say i want to login to play games with fglrx or if i simply want to log into an internet/office session with suspend capibilities.
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Look for something on how to create multiple screens using the virtual terminals.

For instance, by default, X11 (both Xorg and XFree86) creates a screen on virtual terminal 7 and calls it screen zero, or :0 (hopefully that won't be an emoticon). What you want to do--or what I think you're getting at--is create another screen, :1, but bind it to perhaps virtual terminal 6.

I did this once with Starcraft--I used to create a new screen and nice down the main one so that Starcraft would run a little faster, and the new screen was on virtual terminal 6.

Hopefully that'll give you a shove in the right direction, if I didn't tell you stuff you've already found out.
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