On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 12:20:09AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > A similar case has been discussed on the list some time ago. Something
I missed it in my search. > like that happens when multiple programms fight about a virtual > console. These may be getty, xdm, wdm, gdm or login.app. I am using mingetty instead of getty and only have xdm installed. ... > Also check in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers that you don't try to handle a vt > that is used by getty (in /etc/inittab). ah HA!! That was it! I had vt 1 through 7 config'ed in inittab and Xservers was config'ed to use vt7. I moved it to use vt8. It is working now as it should. Thanks very much for the clue!! As a side note, is there collection of these little tidbits of info that are common knowledge to Debian old-timers, but known to the Debian (and/or Linux) newbies? I don't mean the Debian FAQ, though a section in the FAQ dealing with various config files would be useful. Maybe it already exists? :-) bob ...thinking it's cool to be running xdm and X again :-) -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\ /) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/ 60,000 head of livestock \) no place like $HOME. "CIA terrorist NSA bomb spy KGB drugs nuclear agent war GCHQ... Hi Echelon!"