Date: 01 Jun 1998 07:48:12 -0500 From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org To: malte@webmore.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: two X-servers on one machine? Message-ID: <873edp9tkj.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Malte Lance's message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:20:31 %2B0200 (CEST)" References: <XFMail.980601132031.malte@webmore.com>
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Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> writes: > On 01-Jun-98 Donald Burr wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Is it possible to run two X-servers on one machine? I run mine normally > > under 24-bit, but would like to be able to run an 8-bit server should I > > desire to use a program that doesn't work in >8 bit mode. (but without > > having to stop my 24-bit server and the programs that are currently active > > on it, of course) How can this be set up? Thanks! > > For running 2 X-servers on one graphics-device try: > startx -- :1.0 What about putting it in /etc/ttys? Or starting multiple xdm's at bootup? For me this has not worked--the console just gets hosed and I need to login through the net and reboot. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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