Thanks for the advice, Paul. I'll try to follow it.
On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:04, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:49:13PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> | On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:13, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> | > 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.
> |
> | I understand that.
> |
> | It is beginning to look like I have had for at least 2 years a serious
> | misconception about what using xdm permits OpenBSD to do in terms
> | of running multiple users in windows mode.
> |
> | What I want to do is make it possible for multiple users simultaneously
> | to login and run kde on C0-C3. Is that possible?
>
> Multiple users, simultaneously - that requires multiple X servers.
> Either with multiple video cards and monitors (this is possible) and
> multiple keyboard/mice (dont know how feasible this is, may be
> possible using USB keyboards/ mice, but I never tried) or a couple of
> X terminals (can be found on ebay for as little as $15) with something
> like XDMCP.
>
> I do suggest that you follow the advice from some other posters to not
> disable the gettys on your system - you will find out why if you do
> disable them.
>
> Again, I suggest you read up on some of this material before asking
> more questions. Google has a world of information ready for you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
