[ale] virtual consoles

[Geoffrey]

Thanks John, I hadn't caught that.  It's interesting the difference in 
some of the info in the various man pages.  I checked 'man X' but not 
'man XFree86'

This does work and I'm currently running 11 Xservers from vt2-vt12

I guess I could kill my getty on vt1 and fire one up there, but I'd 
kinda like to keep one virtual console around. :)

So, now the next question is, how does one map virtual consoles beyond 
F12 key?  I'll post info I find. :)

I'd still like to find out how X determines to use vt7 by default.  It 
may well be hard coded.  I think I'll check out the source.

John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> This might help:
> 
>>>From `man XFree86`:
> 
> OPTIONS
>        In  addition  to  the normal server options described in the
> Xserver(1) manual page, XFree86 accepts the following command line
> switches:
> 
>        vtXX    XX specifies the Virtual Terminal device number  which 
> XFree86 will  use.   Without  this  option, XFree86 will pick the
> first               available Virtual Terminal that it  can 
> locate.   This  option applies  only  to  platforms such as Linux,
> BSD, SVR3 and SVR4, that have virtual terminal support.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> John
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> 
>>Making progress, but still stumped.
>>
>>I've noted that there is a setting for gdm in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf for
>>the virtual console to start at.  I've changed it and can get gdm to
>>start on vt3.
>>
>>Still can't seem to locate where regular X gets this value.  If I start
>>X by simply executing 'X' I still get it on vt7.
>>
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