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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xdm in rc.local Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:53:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <54dhtr$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <549m46$qeq@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) wrote: > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt0b -wm > ^^^^ > I suspect this may be the problem. Is this the correct way to specify > ttyvb (my last, and "off" terminal)? Or should I use the decimal form > "vt11"? Or is there something else I should be doing as well? I think decimal. Run X -probeonly vt12 > /tmp/xlog 2>&1 and look what the server tells you it is using. Also, the numbering is off by 1, for compatibility with SysV braindamage (i.e., ttyv0 corresponds to vt01). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)