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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!conrads From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xdm in rc.local Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:24:11 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961020152245.228B-100000@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <549m46$qeq@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54dhtr$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.150 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <54dhtr$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> On 20 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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). Thanks, Joerg! Changed it to vt12, and now it works fine. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |