It might be worth trying to run xdm as "xdm -nodaemon" and see if your
problems go away.

-Zach Fine
czyz@serv.net

>>>>> "Lucio" == Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> writes:

    Lucio> That's a good point.  I've always assumed they would chew
    Lucio> each other's input, rather than come up with extra
    Lucio> characters, but I've never figured out how to get xdm/X to
    Lucio> start on a specific tty where I made sure there wouldn't be
    Lucio> a getty.