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Chad Van Maele [chadvm at gmail.com]

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:40:13 +0000

I've tried and tried and I can't get this to work, I'm using Debian/etch, xorg 7.3, and xdm. When try to start the X server manually, seat0 works ok, but I've had varying success with seat1, sometimes it starts, but not on the same vt, so monitor0 goes black, or it will start on the same vt, but no window manager will start, the mouse and keyboard work ok though. I've looked at an exhaustive amount of other howto's, but most of them are outdated, saying I need Xephyr to do it. I've gone to irc.freenode.net and went to #xorg, but no one there even talks at all, just a bunch of IRC trolls I guess. I don't know where to look for help anymore, so I'm writing this email. I don't want to be a bother, but I just don't know what else to do. Thanks.

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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:52:52 +0100

2008/10/5 Chad Van Maele <chadvm@gmail.com>:

    > I've tried and tried and I can't get this to work, I'm using Debian/etch,
    > xorg 7.3, and xdm.   When try to start the X server manually, seat0 works
    > ok, but I've had varying success with seat1, sometimes it starts, but not on
    > the same vt, so monitor0 goes black, or it will start on the same vt, but no

So -- what's in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

    > window manager will start, the mouse and keyboard work ok though.  I've
    > looked at an exhaustive amount of other howto's, but most of them are
    > outdated, saying I need Xephyr to do it.  I've gone to irc.freenode.net and

Umm, if they're suggesting you use Xephyr, then they can't be outdated -- Xephyr is a recent and proposed replacement for Xnest, although I agree the use Xephyr is probably tangential to your solution.

-- Thomas Adam

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