[PLUG] running multiple sessions

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue May 28 18:10:47 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 10:30, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I've been playing with running multiple concurrent sessions on one machine. 
> It is easy and fun, at least in console mode. (RH 7.2) I can open six, 
> Alt+F1- F6, any combination of users I want. but when I try to open an x 
> session it crashes as soon as I switch away.
> 
> For example, at Alt+F6 I'll fire up KDE. Works fine until I switch to one of 
> the others, for example Ctrl+Alt+F1. when I come back it is crashed. Same for 
> Gnome and XFCE. Should be plenty of hardware resources, Duron 800/256 RAM.
> 
> Should it not be possible to do this? All of my personalities must find 
> simultaneous expression. Red hat docs are unhelpful.

Sounds like a video driver problem.

What video card are you using?  What version of XFree86?






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