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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:31:34 +0000
From:      User Tysken <tysken@post.utfors.se>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...)
Message-ID:  <20030226013134.GA66065@dasboot.birch.se>

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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

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.

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.

Perhaps I haven't searched thurly enought but perhaps someone can point me in the right direction of do this.

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.

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.

That is however out of subject and I should write it in a new mail.

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?

Anyway thanks for reading and perhaps replying to this mail :)

Mvh Mattias Björk

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