Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:22:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (Wes Santee) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm with pcvt Message-ID: <m0suZbO-000012C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199509180034.RAA00200@wsantee.oz.net> from "Wes Santee" at Sep 17, 95 05:34:08 pm
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>From the keyboard of Wes Santee:
> I'm trying to keep an xdm session open on screen 4 at all times so I
> don't have to keep starting X whenever I login. However, I don't want
> the xdm login screen to be the default since I usually prefer
> character mode screens.
>
> I'm using the pcvt console driver and in rc.local I'm doing this:
>
> /usr/sbin/scon -c 3 # go to screen 4
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -daemon # fire up xdm
> sleep 10 # give xdm some time to start
> /usr/sbin/scon -c 0 # come back to preferred login screen
>
> When I reboot, I see xdm start, come up with the graphical login, then
> switch back to screen 1. However, if I hit CTRL+ALT+F4, the xdm
> screen is gone and I'm met with just a blank (character mode) screen.
Hmm - I'm doing this all the time with 2.0.5.
Did you disable the getty for the corresponding screen in /etc/ttys ?
You need a configuration for xdm in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers similar
to this (from my system):
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8
My (part of) rc.local looks like this for starting xdm at boot time on
screen 8:
[....]
# path for xdm (X11R6)
XDMP=/usr/X11R6/bin
# path for xdm (X11R5)
#XDMP=/usr/X386/bin
# set to YES to start xdm on screen 8
xdm_start=YES
#xdm_start=NO
[....]
#--------------------------------------------------
# if desired, start xdm on screen 8
#--------------------------------------------------
if [ X${xdm_start} = X"YES" -a -x $XDMP/xdm ]
then
$SCONP/scon -d /dev/ttyv7
$XDMP/xdm
sleep 10
$SCONP/scon -d /dev/ttyv0
fi
Hope this helps,
hellmuth
--
Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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