Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:23:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd) Message-ID: <199609181223.HAA11484@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960918152757.2777N-100000@sdev.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Sep 18, 96 03:29:50 pm
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David Nugent babbled:
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:29:50 +0000 ()
> From: David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>
> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net>
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jerry Dunham wrote:
>
> >> to the others using the <ctrl><Alt><f[1-3]>. By way of note... you
> >> can switch back to the x console using <alt><f4>.
I tried this here this morning, and it doesn't work. The <ctl><alt>
<F1> part worked to get me back to a text console, but then I was never
able to return to the X session. I tried it a couple of times to make
sure I was doing as instructed, but without success. Apparently SOME-
thing must be configured differently to make this work.
> >What's unique about console 3? Why should I start xdm there?
>
> The X server selects the first "free" vt to run on.
Makes sense.
> > Is there some way of starting xdm there automatically upon
> > system boot?
>
> Sure. Start it from /etc/rc.local in daemon mode, or put it into
> your /etc/ttys and start it up on any vt.
So what would I put in either of those places to make it work, and
what are the relative advantages and disadvantage of the two? I
assume that in ttys I turn ttyv3 off, but what else?
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