i'm trying to create a "fast user switching" environment

right now, i'm just going to try this out without using a desktop manager like xdm, kdm, gdm, etc; just from commandline I would like to be able to do startx -- :0, startx -- :1, etc, and run several xsessions at once (of course, within the limits of my RAM ); all this is done localhost

i tried doing this, but, with a desktop already running on :0, doing starting x on another screen fails with this output:

_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/infinite:1
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.26 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux infinite 2.6.7 #1 Mon Jun 28 20:33:38 CDT 2004 i686
Build Date: 05 June 2004
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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Sun Aug 1 12:58:30 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 4X successfully initialized
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0



do i need to setup my xorg.conf file explicitly? if so, what should i modify?

thanx in advance

For my part, I have nvidia too and a non-specifical xorg.conf but the command work :

startx -- :1

while I have X running at screen 0, I did not test to startx in screen 1 directly though. I will try that later
Did you not make a typo error, like not put space between -- and :1 ?

hmm, i haven't come up with a solution

i ran the command exactly as you put it...

i'm thinking that I either need to define something in my xorg.conf/xfree86.conf or use some extra options, but i don't know what

You don't need to define anything extra, it runs just fine on my computer. What calls my attention is "(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object | (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***", try upgrading the drivers.

my Slack box uses the .4496 nvidia driver and I can open a konsole window and do a startx -- :4 , :5 and it fires up a new session........
so the driver is not the fault here............
I can also do the same on my LFS box.......and it uses the .5336 nvidia driver..............I think it's a Socket problem......!!

Maybe there's an option on X to use v4, but i dunno, try reading the man

whoa, new nvidia drivers

just installed them, but still no luck; the same errors, except now the tty's get overlaid with black until i go into my existing x-session to "refresh" the framebuffer i guess

i thought that framebuffer might be a problem, but nvidia should conflict only with rivafb, not with vesafb (the one i use, built into the kernel)

also, using xorg's nv driver instead of nvidia allowed me to run multiple x-sessions without a problem, so this is definitely just an nvidia driver problem (or something related to it)

any other ideas? i'll try getting rid of fb, but my computer's been on a good uptime streak, and i don't feel like rebooting, lol

*edit: wow, the new drivers certainly gave glxgears an fps boost

ok, it looks to be a problem with the nvidia proprietary driver's handling of my RivaTNT2 card; the solution i found on google was to drop back to the 4496 drivers, but it is apparently incompatible with the x.org x-server

no big deal

I had the same issue. It seems that the xserver is requesting a ipv6 connection. Which IMHO is silly. Solution is to either build support for it into the kernel or add this to the command line --nolisten tcp.

Druisgod

Or rebuild X without Ipv6 support.. but it's really a non-issue, anyway :-p

--Shade