> No, the problem is that if you give the command startx -- :1 the command what you 
>really ¨give¨ is xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/Your_wm -- :0 :1 . What xinit will do with this 
>is open X under vt8 but open the corresponding windowmanager on vt7. I just tryed it 
>with FreeBSD and it had the same effect so it is definitly not the kernel.

Boy, I'm glad to see someone else agrees with me !!!  ;-)

If I have to post this on cooker or Xpert again I'll burst !!!  :-)

In startx change the last line, which is:
xinit $clientargs -- $display $serverargs
to
xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs

Hope this helps  :-),
Owen


On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip... I was wondering if it's not something with the kernel
> > instead since I have also had a crash as soon as I tried to bring the smp
> > kernel up (something to do with the framebuffer).
> > 
> > Note that the vt problem was there in smp with the 1st bta as well but that
> > the smp kernel did boot just fine back then.
> > 
> > 
> > This 2nd beta looks worse than the 1st to me...
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jean Meloche
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > e-gold # 133947
> > 
> > 
> No, the problem is that if you give the command startx -- :1 the command what you 
>really ¨give¨ is xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/Your_wm -- :0 :1 . What xinit will do with this 
>is open X under vt8 but open the corresponding windowmanager on vt7. I just tryed it 
>with FreeBSD and it had the same effect so it is definitly not the kernel.

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