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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
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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. ;-)