From: Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Date: 03/02/2000 06:28:06
Allan Schaffer wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 11:01am, Robert Wolfe wrote:
> > We have a 2-pipe Onyx2 IR2. We would like to configure
> > the first pipe for stereo head-mounted display and use the second
> > pipe for other applications including plain old logging in.
> > Unfortunately, the visual login screen (clogin) always
> > appears on the first pipe. Anybody know how to change
> > clogin to appear on the second pipe (our normal monitor)?
>
> Just to be clear -- if you move the clogin window over to the second
> pipe you'll still have a situation where one login "session" is in
> control of all the pipes. More specifically, with [just] this you
> wouldn't be able to log in & out of pipe 2 without pipe 1 being
> logged in & out along with it.
>
> So if what you're really looking for is the ability to use the two
> pipes for completely distinct login sessions, you'll want to go with
> what's known as a "Two Keyboard Option" setup.
>
> Hook up a second keyboard/mouse to the system [can't remember where,
> can someone else chime in here] and go to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/
Sure the second keyboard plugs in right next to the first on the IO6G.
Look at the back of the compute module the IO6G has the ethernet cable
and keyboard cable plugged into it.
Brian
>
> This being an Onyx2 and assuming you're running 6.5.x you'll see two
> files there, plain 'Xservers' and 'Xservers.3key'.
>
> Copy 'Xservers' to a backup location (perhaps 'Xservers.1key'), then
> create a new file 'Xservers.2key'. Xservers.3key will show you what
> needs to be in there.
>
> Then copy your new 'Xservers.2key' back over 'Xservers'.
>
> Restart graphics (stopgfx; killall xdm; startgfx) or reboot,
> and hopefully, viola'.
>
> Critical tip: make sure the system is on a network so you can log in
> remotely, or hook up an ascii terminal, in case you need to put
> things back!
>
> Allan
>
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