Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:08:37PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:21:48PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > 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.
The links are in rc2.d to rc5.d, yes. However, this has absolutely
*nothing* to do with what is on tty2 to tty6. Debian's xdm package will
not touch anything but tty7 unless *you* configure it otherwise.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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