Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 06:03:50 -0800 From: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD-Stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "User Tysken" <tysken@post.utfors.se> Subject: RE: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...) Message-ID: <AMEMKJNMFLJCJDLFIEDBAEJLCIAA.aburke@nullplusone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030226013134.GA66065@dasboot.birch.se>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of User Tysken > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:32 PM > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...) > > > Hi, > > I have searched some on google and on xfree86.org but I can't > find any usefull information about this mater. > > Honestly I haven't searched that mutch but I haven't found > something usefull yet. > > I want to be able to have multitiple xdm loginscreens on the same > workstation using only one monitor and so on. > > I wounder if this is the right file to edit in: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers This is the only file that you have to modify, however you need to make two seperate mods. The default file just says :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X Just change it to say the following. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 > > The only line that is in there is ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X" > > I have tried to add ":1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X" but xdm does not > seem to like it. It wound "behave" that I want it to. First i > started xdm and then i just crashed after a few seconds. And then > I tryed to start It again and the it started but I did not get > multitple xdm login screens on ALT-F9... ALT-F10. There are two mods to one file that need to be made. (explained above) After you make them you will have X consoles on F9 and F10. > And I didn't even get a login prompt if you understand what I > mean only a the standar gray and black backgrund with a login screen. (see post above) > > Perhaps I haven't searched thurly enought but perhaps someone can > point me in the right direction of do this. You have searched well enough. I remember playing with this for about a week in the past. (when I first got it working). Its amazing how easy the change is to make though. > > One thing that I perhaps should mention is that im using a > Geforce 3 Ti 200 with the nvidia drv and it seems to be quite > unstable on my system. So sometimes the computer crashes and I > have to reboot it to get it working. This is an unrelated problem. Feel free to ask about it on -questions though. > > Sometimes I can just ssh from an other box and kill and restart > xdm. And some times I can't even ping my workstation and are > forced to do a hard reboot. You should always be able to ssh into your box (provided your running the server, and you are). > It might perhaps be so that I have to do some config changes in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config but I don't think thats necessery > or am I wrong? Nothing to do there. > > Anyway thanks for reading and perhaps replying to this mail :) Thats what some of us are here for. > > Mvh Mattias Björk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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