<quote who="Melinda Taylor">
> However, if I set the boottime run level to 5 (ie X starts up at boot)
> when I try to do the same thing (CNTRL-ALT-F1) it just brings up a grey
> screen when I execute "X :1 -indirect server vt8" and doesn't ever present
> a chooser screen. The X error log /varr/log/Xfree:1.log doesn't tell me
> anything either, no error messages....
>
> Can someone else try this out on their machine and see. Note that when
> booting up in runtime 5 and executing 'startx -- :1 vt8' to start another
> X session - does work, but startx can't be used to connect to a remote
> server that is broadcasting (am I correct?)
*boggle*
Strangely enough, I was trying to do this the other night at Granville TAFE,
to give my Debian talk. My iBook doesn't have VGA output, so I often use GDM
and someone else's notebook and X server to do talks.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get it going, with exactly the same problems
you've described. I did not try getting out of runlevel 5.
(This is a good example why using inittab for X is a bad idea - I couldn't
simply stop kdm and do my own thing.)
I reckon you should take this up on one of the Red Hat lists if you don't
get an answer here.
- Jeff
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