On 20 Mar 2003, diego wrote: > I have a NVIDIA GFORCE II graphic card and have NVIDIA driver compiled > against kernel to get most out its perfomance. Problem is I want to have > two displays (vtty7 and vtty8) with X. > > If I try a simple gdm from console while already into vtty7 X session it > will finally launch X on another vtty, but I can't get it working > through config files. I read I have to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and > add a line like: > :2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 > but with this line it won't start any X at all.
I find that the simplest way to get a second X session going is to do it manually from a vtty (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 thru F6). I have the following alias set in my /etc/bashrc file: alias ice2='xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm -- :1' This enables me to login on tty6 (for example), run "ice2" at the prompt, and thereby start IceWM on the second X display (Ctrl-Alt-F8) as the user I logged in as on tty6. Replace the "/usr/..." portion with the full path to the command that launches your desired WM/DE. When you log out from the WM/DE, the second X session ends and you are returned to the vtty. BTW, I vastly prefer a "lightweight" WM for the 2nd display, as the added overhead of running a second X server is quite enough for me without also piling KDE or Gnome on atop it, IMHO ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 23, 2002
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