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second X server?



Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> On 12 Sep 2000, Frank Ramsay wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get a second X server to come up on my computer on the
> > 'F8' console.
> > I've tried
> > X :1
> > and
> > xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1
> 
> What I did was run
> 
>   startx&
> 
> then switch back to my original VC (though you shouldn't necessarily need
> to) and then I ran
> 
>   startx -- :1
> 
> It worked fine, although enlightenment crashed because it's not very well
> behaved when it comes to multiple sessions, in any sense of the term...

I tried this also, it also didn't work :(
I suspect it's a bug in the driver... 

fyi,
  I don't want to start a window manager, that's why
didn't mention trying startx in my post.


					-fjr
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