From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 23:53:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA16767 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16749 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA03556; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:53:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:53:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Lars Koeller cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de Subject: Re: Start 2 Xservers with xdm -> problems! In-Reply-To: <199701170929.KAA00720@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Lars Koeller wrote: > I'm running 2.1.6.1 and XFree86-3.2. I just tried to start 2 X-servers on my > machine with xdm. Only one with the following X-server config file runs well > > :0 local /usr/X11/bin/X > > but if I change to the following > > :1 local /usr/X11/bin/X :1 ttyv5 > :0 local /usr/X11/bin/X :0 ttyv4 > > both servers are started, but after switching to the vt console and back to > the server all seems confused, especially the keyboard, and switching never > works again. Try banging on the ctrl key. When switching from X to the console with cntl-alt-Fn, the control key gets stuck down. Tapping it releases the lock. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major