Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:21:48PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, John W. M. Stevens wrote:
> > > That controls whether or not XDM (or gdm or kdm) gets started up,
> > > but does not control which virtual terminal the X server is running
> > > on.
> > >
> > > I assume that your X server is using VT7 . . . right?
> > >
> > > Note that xdm and siblings are not the X server itself.
> >
> > Exactly. So whether X is itself on tty7 doesn't mean that xdm isn't on
> > tty2-6, right?
>
> In practice you'll find it isn't unless you have taken steps to make it
> do that.
_I_ didn't; when I upgraded to XFree86 4.1 a few weeks ago, I ended up
with links to start xdm in every rc?.d directory, or at least in 2-5. So
some debian maintainer took steps to make it do that.
Patrick
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