Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 07:53:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: kaleb@x.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm running two sessions HOW? Message-ID: <199602291553.HAA18809@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199602291329.AAA29395@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Mar 1, 96 00:29:53 am
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David Dawes wrote: > Kaleb Keithley (sp?) wrote: > >I'm pretty sure there's a race condition even though your xdm-error log > >shows that two servers did use two different VTs. You probably want to > >use the -vt option to force a particular server onto an explicit VT, e.g.: > > > >:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -vt 3 > >:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -vt 4 i will try this tonight. maybe sooner ;) > Yes, there is a race there. There could be a little more to it as well. > When I experimented with this a while ago, I found that I needed to run > the servers via a script which first switched to a text VT, waited for > a few seconds, then started the server. I haven't tried this recently, > but just doing the sleep wasn't sufficient. > > The script I had used the old syscons utility from FreeBSD 1.x (now > replaced by kbdcontrol and vidcontrol, neither of which allow you to > switch VTs from the command line): > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/local/bin/syscons -t 1 </dev/ttyv0 > sleep 3 > exec X "$@" i dont have a syscons executalbe! where do i find one? saw this technique in the mail archives. you had mentioned it to me once before ;) > I'm not sure exactly why this is necessary. It may be possible to modify > the servers so as to avoid the need for this VT switch. If anyone has > any ideas/suggestions about this, let me know. > > David >
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