XDM configuration

[Mark H. <mar...@xs...>]

Hi,


I've been using backstreet ruby for a while now, and it works
great for me, and also the new 2.6 patch works better than
anything I've tried before.

I've got 2 X sessions working fine in parallel using different
layouts in XF86config. I start them using "startx -- :<screen> -layout <name>"
and that works fine.

However, since all this is working properly for some time now,
I would really like to get the xdm sessions to work, but I'm still
experiencing problems with that.

I have the following content in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
(and the same in the kdm config)

# $Xorg: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
#
# Xservers file, workstation prototype
#
# This file should contain an entry to start the server on the
# local display; if you have more than one display (not screen),
# you can add entries to the list (one per line).  If you also
# have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP,
# you can add them here as well.  Each X terminal line should
# look like:
#       XTerminalName:0 foreign
#
#:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-head1 -layout head1 vt7
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-head2 -layout head2 vt17

However, when I start xdm, what happens is that X is started
on the second screen, but no login prompt appears. I think the
problem is xdm related, since if I remove the :1 line, it starts
on the first screen, and the login prompt does appear.

Does anyone here have a clue what I'm doing wrong?
(I'm using the Gentoo distribution available at www.gentoo.org)


Kind regards,
Mark.