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Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd)
To: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:56:07 +0200 (MESZ)
Cc: branson@widomaker.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199609180240.VAA25751@freeside.fc.net> from "Jerry Dunham" at Sep 17, 96 09:40:57 pm
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E-mail message from Jerry Dunham contained:
> 
> What's unique about console 3?  Why should I start xdm there?  Is there
> some way of starting xdm there automatically upon system boot?

Nothing, except that that is the default out-of-the-cd-rom console where
the Xserver normally lives.

>  
> >  You can even add more syscons consoles fairly easily... since the
> >  devices start at 0, you have in your /etc/ttys somthing like:
> > 
> >  #
> >  ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
> >  # Virtual terminals
> >  ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> >  ttyv2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> >  ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  off secure
> > 
> >  Note that number three is off .. that is for X windows...
> 
> Why off?  There's something here I'm not understanding at all.

Because Xserver choses the first free virtual console.  If it weren't
'off' the console would have been busy with getty.