From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 29 23:07:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12172 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:07:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eroubinc@u.washington.edu) Received: from dante09.u.washington.edu (eroubinc@dante09.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.35]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id XAA31182 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:05:56 -0800 Received: from localhost (eroubinc@localhost) by dante09.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id XAA120302 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:05:56 -0800 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:05:56 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein To: fbsdqs Subject: Re: Two X servers at once In-Reply-To: <199812292254.XAA70201@peedub.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >Spike Gronim writes: >>Hello. >> >> I normally run my X server at 32 bpp, and Quake2 looks strange and >>greenish at this color depth. So, I'd like to be able to Ctr-Alt-F1 to my >>first virtual terminal, startx a new 8 bpp X server, and run quake. When I >>try this, the following is reported: >> >>PigStuy# startx -- :1 >> >>_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed >>_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running >> >>Fatal server error: >>Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already r >>unning >> >>When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send >>the full server output, not just the last messages >> >>^Cxinit: unexpected signal 2 >>PigStuy# exit >> >>How can I run this program that needs an 8 bit display and keep my nice 32 >>bpp display? Thanks. >> > >try Xnest Hmm, but the man for Xnest says it "won't work well on servers supporting different visual depth". I just tried "startx -- :1 -bpp 8 vt9" on my system, already runing a server at 16 bpp on vt8, and it seemed to work OK (FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- the one on vt8 runs under XDM, but I don't think that should matter -- I tried both from a virtual tty and from an xterm). A silly thought, but isn't ':' special to csh and friends? Might it need to be escaped or quoted? (root's shell is csh "out of the box", afaik). -- Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu ................... IBM: Itty Bitty Machines To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message