>From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
>
>maximum entropy writes:
>>
>>And it looks like that's a key point.  If I run this small program
>>instead of "xfs $xfs_flags &" from /etc/rc, everything works OK.
>
>That sounds very plausible. 
>
>I still don't understand why xfs seems to work just for me just fine
>with an X server started by xdm, though.

In a normal configuration with xdm, don't you comment out the console
in /etc/ttys?

If getty is never run on the console, the console won't be revoked
from xfs, and xfs won't get hosed.

Cheers,
entropy

--
entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.