On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Moinak:
>
> Another way would be simply to boot into single user mode to get to
> console.  VT is integrating soon into Nevada, I believe, so once that
> is integrated users will have a more reasonable mechanism to switch
> to console logins.  I expect this will get into the next OpenSolaris
> release, but I'm not 100% sure.

   Yes VT will help but may not solve this problem I think since there
will be an
   Xorg already running and another Xorg will refuse to run with -configure. Not
   entirely sure though.

   IMHO in a few small respects GDM is a step backwards from Xdm/Dtlogin.
   I do not understand why a few of the basic features of Dtlogin are still
   not provided by GDM today.

   KDM (K Display manager) on the other hand, that we use on BeleniX
   provides a drop down to Console Login just like Dtlogin. It does this by
   watching /var/adm/utmpx and works nicely.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> Brian
>
>
>>   You can't have two Xorg servers running on the same display.
>>   You need to stop the current X11 GUI and drop down into command line
>> console:
>>   svcadm disable gdm
>>
>>   Once in command line mode login and run Xorg -configure
>>   It will create the file  ~/xorg.conf.new
>>   That needs to be tweaked as per your needs and copied into
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>
>>   In order to get back the GUI desktop login once you are done:
>>   svcadm enable gdm; exit 0
>>
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
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