Re: KDM hangs

[Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 15:32, Peter Clark wrote:
> 	I'm having a minor issue with KDM on my shiny new laptop; I've got it set up 
> so that I loads on both vt7 and vt8. /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers looks like this:
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp vt7
> :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp vt8

Why don't you use

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7
:1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt8
:2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt9
:3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt10

This start Xserver on vt8...vt10 when needed.  With these 'reserved'
entries K-menu and screen saver have a new 'Start new session' entry
that start x-server on vt8 then vt9 ...

Achim
> 
> However, whenever I start the laptop, kdm stops loading on one vt until I 
> switch over to the other. Only then will both load. When I say, "stops 
> loading," I mean that the black and white "fuzz" appears, plus the mouse 
> cursor, and then...nothing. Once I switch over, then the wallpaper and login 
> window appear. My desktop has the same setup, but doesn't have an problem 
> loading them separately. (Although it won't start a kdm session until I 
> switch over to the other vt, at which point I have to wait for it to load 
> before continueing. It would be nice if it loaded in the background, but 
> first things first.) Is there anything I'm missing here?
> 	:Peter
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