From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 07:14:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13070 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 07:14:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA12905 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 07:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.189]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Mon, 01 Jun 1998 16:15:55 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01293; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:10:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <873edp9tkj.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 16:10:33 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Subject: Re: two X-servers on one machine? Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Jun-98 sfarrell+lists@farrell.org wrote: > Malte Lance writes: >> On 01-Jun-98 Donald Burr wrote: >> > 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. Maybe you need to adjust the display-part (":1.0") Which display does your X-server run on ? Malte > > > > -- > > Steve Farrell > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 01-Jun-98 Time: 15:59:17 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message