Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:16:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd) Message-ID: <199609201316.IAA08824@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <199609200927.LAA18559@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 20, 96 11:27:14 am
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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 <ctrl><Alt><f[1-3]>. By way of note... you
> >>>> can switch back to the x console using <alt><f4>.
> >
> > I tried this here this morning, and it doesn't work. The <ctl><alt>
> > <F1> 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 <F1> 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<x>, where x is a number between 0 and 10, enter
> ctrl-alt-F<x+1>. 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.
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