quay....now that makes no sense, as what that error is telling
you is that display 0 is already being used, and since you
correctly specified display 1 then it shouldn't report about
the status of display 0 any longer, it should just go ahead
and use display 1.
Alan
quaylar wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2000 09:29:50 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >quay....you left out a space between the second dash and the
> >colon.
> >
> >startx -- :1
> > ^ ^
>
> i was told this by someone else too...but i get the mentioned error message although
>typing it correctly......
> startx -- :1
>
> it still doesnt work......
>
> >Alan
> >
> >
> >quaylar wrote:
> >>
> >> hi all.....
> >>
> >> i would like to know how to start multiple xsessions on diff. vt's.
> >> i know there is the command startx --:1 which (should) start another xserver
> >> but this produces following error :
> >>
> >> Fatal server error:
> >> Server is already active for display 0
> >> If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
> >> and start again.
> >>
> >>
> >> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> >> the full server output, not just the last messages
> >>
> >> what am i doing wrong ?...is there an option in x-config files i have to set in
> >> order to get this working ?
> >>
> >> thx in advance...
> >>
> >> --quay
