Re: VAR Business story on SCO

From: Bob Stockler (bob_at_trebor.iglou.com)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: 17 Oct 2005 13:59:01 -0400

Roger Cornelius wrote (on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:58:37AM -0700):

| Bob Stockler wrote:
| > John Boland wrote (on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:31:38AM +0100):
| >
| > | > That all sounds fine -- until you temper it with things like SCO
| > | > shipping OpenServer 6 without support for PCI parallel cards
| > |
| > | Bill,
| > |
| > | PCI Parallel will be in MP2 which is due in a few weeks.
| > | Then all will sound fine once again I hope.
| >
| > Will MP2 make possible more than one X session?
|
| It's already possible. Just supply an unused session number as an
| argument to startx. E.g., if you already have session 0, use:
|
| 'startx -- :1' (or 2, 3, etc.)
|
| Look in /dev/X to see what sessions are already active.

Thanks, that works great!

On OSR 5.0.6 I was used to just executing startx alone and it
would automatically pick the next available session number.

Bob (who would do better if he read the man pages more often) 

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