Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:31:05 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@ix.netcom.com> To: Evgeny Roubinchtein <eroubinc@u.washington.edu> Cc: fbsdqs <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Two X servers at once Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812301830010.299-100000@nyc-ny76-28.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9812292259510.46588-100000@dante09.u.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote: > 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 When I typed "Xnest :1" it responded with: _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running This is with XFree86 3.3.3 on a 2.2.8-STABLE system. > > 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 > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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