From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 06:24:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26210 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 06:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net ([204.157.153.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26190 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 06:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA08824; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:16:39 -0500 From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199609201316.IAA08824@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd) To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:16:38 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199609200927.LAA18559@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 20, 96 11:27:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey babbled: > From grog@lemis.de Fri Sep 20 05:14:42 1996 > > Jerry Dunham writes: > > > > David Nugent babbled: > >> > >> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jerry Dunham wrote: > >> > >>>> to the others using the . By way of note... you > >>>> can switch back to the x console using . > > > > I tried this here this morning, and it doesn't work. The > > part worked to get me back to a text console, but then I was never > > able to return to the X session. I tried it a couple of times to make > > sure I was doing as instructed, but without success. Apparently SOME- > > thing must be configured differently to make this work. > > I just tried it here, and it works fine. Of course it works fine. I'm just really slow. > Understand that the part specifies the VT you want to switch to. That I understood all along. > Also, there's a good > chance that you have more than 4 vts generated--I'd guess 11. It was 10. When I saw "MAXCONS=16" I thought that was the number, but then I looked in /etc/ttys and eventually understood. > Check your /etc/ttys to be sure. I'd expect to see: > > # > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > # Virtual terminals > ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure > ttyv10 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure Close. There was no ttyv10 and ttyv9 was on. > To switch to ttyv, where x is a number between 0 and 10, enter > ctrl-alt-F. In this example, you'd get to the X server with > ctrl-alt-F10. I eventually found it on alt-F11, quite by accident, and then all was clear. > In fact, I think you can just omit the line. It's patently obvious > that you don't have a getty in it, so ttys doesn't need to know about > it unless you replace it with > > ttyv9 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" cons25 on secure > > I don't suppose the cons25 is needed, but if you remove it you'll > probably confuse init. What I did, following someone else's advice here, was: ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure and it works great. I like it. I may have driven everyone else nuts getting here, but I definitely like the result. Now if I could just get elm to act right.... -- Jerry Dunham Atarian ordinaire (512)432-8598 (O) jdunham@fc.net GS650G (512)335-0674 (H) dunham@isd.tandem.com dunham_jerry@tandem.com There's no such thing as a free lunch.