Re: VAR Business story on SCO

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: 17 Oct 2005 17:44:42 -0400

Roger Cornelius typed (on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:52:12AM -0700):
| Bob Stockler wrote:
| > 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.
|
| Me too. I wrote my own script to determine the next session number,
| then exec the real startx with the necessary args.

So would you contribute to the prevention of re-invented wheels? :-) 

-- 
JP

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