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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: xdm, syscons, and 1.1.5.1
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 07:23:26 GMT
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I just upgraded to 1.1.5.1 which was a bold thing to do since 1.1 was
cranking along so damn well for me. But I figure it was time to get
that performance boost...
However, I am confused as to how to make xdm use the "fourth,
reserved" virtual tty of syscons. I was running xdm from inside my rc
script before, and so xdm came up on boot. But if I do this from my
rc file now, I get xdm on my ttyv0, which eats up one of the "normal"
virt terms for syscons. How do I make xdm come up on the ttyv3 virt
term? I assume that's the one that is reserved for X?
If this is in the FM (as in RTFM) please point me to it. I waded
through the xdm manual but didn't see a way to point it at the
/dev/tty I wanted it to crop up on...
Thanks...
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$$ Matthew Deter -- mld@netcom.com
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