From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 11:12:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA20944 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20934 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.4/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id LAA22562 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:12:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15333(8)>; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:09:24 PST Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177478>; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:09:13 -0800 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Petri Helenius cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm runnign twice? possible? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:48:28 PST." <199603162148.XAA00403@silver.sms.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:09:10 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Mar18.110913pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199603162148.XAA00403@silver.sms.fi>you write: >Daniel Baker writes: > > Hey, is it possible to have xdm running twice? > >Since the mouse driver is not virtualized enough to support multiple >users at a time, the answer is no. I used to run X multiple times -- but not xdm. If I tried running xdm on multiple different TTY's, the system would hang, for an unknown reason. If, however, person A logged in and said "xinit" and person B logged in and said "xinit -- :1", life was wonderful. I guess I just got lucky with the mouse. Can't say that I know why it worked, just that it did and I was happy. "his" and "hers" X sessions. =) Bill