Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:50:16PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
>
> > The only association between ttys and runlevels is that not all ttys are
> > available at all runlevels. A default Debian installation will not show
> > you xdm on all your ttys, at any runlevel.
>
> But if S??xdm is defined at every runlevel it will.
No, it won't.
> And it was so defined
> after my recent install of XFree86 4.1, at least at runlevels 2-5.
No, it wasn't, unless you modified the installation.
Best guess, here, is that you are using the token: xdm, to mean
something else.
> > Under what circumstances, precisely, do you see xdm on all your VTs?
>
> None any more; I purged xdm and all those symlinks went away.
OK, then we can let this thread drop, right?
> I _swear_ I am not making this up.
I'm not saying that you are . . . I believe you do not understand
what is going on, and what things are called, that's all.
John S.
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