General discussion • Multi-Seat use of RPi 5

We would like 2 users to share 1 RPi 5 - each would have their own screen, keyboard and mouse and would use the computer independently. So two sessions and two mouse cursors should be available.

I'm surprised that not that many people have tried that before (for basic work it saves a lot of money to share 10 RPis between 20 seats...) and can't get it to work using either:

- viewtopic.php?t=243572
or
- https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO

On Bookworm, things have changed quite a bit. Do you think a solution is possible using Wayland or is switching back to X11 a better option?
In any case, no configuration files and/or commands for older Raspberry Pi hardware and OS versions work on Bookworm.
I guess also the GPU is once again different and maybe getting it to actually split to 2 workstations is not that trivial.
I also understand that 3D acceleration is not possible in this use case - that's fine as long as Chromium performance doesn't suffer too much.

So: I'm kindly asking for some pointers and pieces of advice on how to enable multi-seat on a RPi 5 - 3D acceleration being optional. It can be just software rendering if that makes it easier.

Thank you!

Statistics: Posted by markostamcar — Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:38 am

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