From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 05:48:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28862 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 05:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA28856 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 05:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id HAA23217; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 07:48:13 -0500 (CDT) To: malte@webmore.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: two X-servers on one machine? References: From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 01 Jun 1998 07:48:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: Malte Lance's message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:20:31 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: <873edp9tkj.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Malte Lance writes: > On 01-Jun-98 Donald Burr wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Is it possible to run two X-servers on one machine? I run mine normally > > under 24-bit, but would like to be able to run an 8-bit server should I > > desire to use a program that doesn't work in >8 bit mode. (but without > > having to stop my 24-bit server and the programs that are currently active > > on it, of course) How can this be set up? Thanks! > > For running 2 X-servers on one graphics-device try: > startx -- :1.0 What about putting it in /etc/ttys? Or starting multiple xdm's at bootup? For me this has not worked--the console just gets hosed and I need to login through the net and reboot. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message