On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:51:38AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
| I just discovered that even though xdm is running,
| terminals C[0-3] are running in character mode
Hardly a surprise, of course. Please read up on ttys(5). You can not
have run OpenBSD without having logged in to a text-mode console
before, have you ? You've logged in there before, it's no surprise
that you can still log in on those terminals.
| ie. if, while logged in via xdm, I enter ctl-alt-F[0-3],
| I get a tty login!!!
Yes, that's the way it is supposed to work.
| And if, alfter logging in to one of those tty screens,
| I atempt to start KDE, I am informed that I can't
| because the x server is already running.
Of course, because the X server *is* already running. You are in fact
logged in. No surprise there, again.
| How do I get xdm to handle all console logins?
xdm is for graphical logins. text-mode console logins are handled by
getty(8). You can not make xdm handle text-mode logins, that's not
what it's designed to do.
What, exactly, is your problems with the gettys running on the text-
mode consoles ?
I suggest some major reading on how all this stuff is supposed to
work. ttys, getty, xdm, X are some nice places to start. This is all
quite extensively documented. A whole world of webpages describe the
things you're seeing. Some help from your friend google could have
told you everything I just wrote.
Happy reading.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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