On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:

> Hi all,
>       in my inittab, I have six ttys running in run level 5. And the xdm
> is on ttys 7.
> 
>       Could anyone tell me how to get the xdm running in ttys8 as well??
> 
>       In this case, I can just press ctrl-alt-f8 to change to my second
> xdm??
> 

That involves a little fiddling with xdm's config file:
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

add a line like such:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7      <--- existing line
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8      <--- new line


that should work.

                       Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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