From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 16:03:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21389 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain-work.iafrica.com (khetan@chain-work.iafrica.com [196.31.1.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21380 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:02:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain-work.iafrica.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA00479 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 02:02:54 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain-work.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs X-Received: from relay01.iafrica.com (relay01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.160]) by chain-work.iafrica.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA13864 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 01:07:16 +0200 (SAT) X-Received: from colin.Muc.DE [193.174.4.1] (root) by relay01.iafrica.com with smtp (Exim 1.59 #1) id 0vnYET-0004XI-00; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 01:06:58 +0200 X-Received: from tavari.muc.de ([195.180.235.192]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <86037-1>; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:06:39 +0100 X-Received: from aleisha.tavari.muc.de (aleisha.tavari.muc.de [192.168.42.51]) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02055 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:06:00 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199701230906.KAA02055@tavari.muc.de> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:02:03 +0100 From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Subject: Re: Using xdm, using DIFFERENT mice on same machine for two sessions Organization: What ? You're kidding, or ? Or ? OR ? Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit References: X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.4 ReSent-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 02:02:50 +0200 (SAT) ReSent-From: Khetan Gajjar ReSent-To: questions@freebsd.org ReSent-Message-ID: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions) In article , khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) wrote: >Hi there. > >I'm trying to get xdm to display login prompts on two seperate consoles, >using DIFFERENT X servers, each one using a DIFFERENT mouse to get around >the apparent problem of xdm not allowing the same mouse to be shared. > >I've played around with /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, to look something >like > >:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 >:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel :1 > >but this causes all sorts of horrible problems, making the machine >horribly unstable. I hope someone out there can help! > >I've looked in the -questions archive, and can't find anything. I've tried >the xdm man page, and according to that, the above should work - but it >doesn't :-( Don't let xdm start the server. Remove the lines from Xservers (but keep xdm running), and start the servers (i.e. in /etc/rc.local) with /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 -indirect or /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 -query The first will get you a host menu, the second a direct login. Start the other server the same way. ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? | lutz@muc.de Luederitzstr. 14 | Life's good - | ph: +49-89-93940363 81929-Muenchen, Germany | But not fair at all | fax:+49-89-93940365 (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.