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From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: which FAQ or how to set up X to run automatically?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 11:09:03 -0500
Organization: Freshman, H&SS Undeclared, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 21-Oct-95 Re: Q: which
FAQ or how to .. Julian Elischer@mailhub. (890)
> you can always drop back by using <CTL><ALT><Fn>
> if you haven't logged in on those screens the users are going to eventually
> have to hit <ALT>F4 or get bored to death with the Login: prompt
> (I have run a couple of X servers at once on differnt vt's
> neat!)
> (just start a second one after you've started one and it appears on F5)
> unix:1.0 rather than 0.0..
> :)
Because you mentioned this, I gave it a try. First thing I found was
that one had to define the screen and terminal device used on the
command line for X..
eg.,
X :1 ttyv3 <-- I only have v0 active
This worked fine -- I could even pop up an xclock on it from my original
X (access control comes later, I guess) -- however, I shortly
afterwards, when killing the xclock on the first display, got a device
in use message on my mouse (/dev/mouse symbolically linked to
/dev/psm0). then my system did some strange stuff that was reminiscent
of stuff it did when I didn't define the terminal device to use (eg.,
the console/displays locked up nicely and such) -- eventually I got the
system back under control. Anyhow, it obviously wasn't happy with the
arrangement. Presumably if I defined a different mouse device based on
a second mouse (serial) it would work? I don't know if anyone has seen
the mac-multi-monitor setup in non-mirror mode, but it's pretty amazing
how one just sort of moves the mouse off one onto the other -- I take it
that isn't possible currently? :) Assuming one had two cards/monitors
here, and ran a different X server to pull up the different config. or
even just to jump from one display to another.
anyhow, any thoughts on how to prevent the mouse problme would be nice
-- also how to autostart the X server -- I can only start the second one
from the console screen -- when it tries to load from a graphics mode
server, the system does unpleasent things.
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org