Multiple X Servers?!?!?!?

[Paul King]

After an upgrade in Sarge where a ton of packages were updated, I noticed that 
there were multiple X servers starting (ie, in :1, :2, :3:, :4, etc, as well as 
:0). While I never knew you could do that on one machine (CTRL+ALT+Fn gets you 
to the different instances of X), and while it might come in handy, right now 
it is a nuisance as no window manager will begin while these are coming up.

In between instances, an error message is generated telling me that, for 
example, it was trying to start a server on :0, but found one already there. 
Would I like it to start one on :1? A "No" to that question simply repeats its 
attempt to restart on :0 (which will fail), resulting in a repeat of the same 
console message. A "Yes" starts it on :1 and generates the next error message 
where it complains that it is trying to load another server on to :1, and there 
is already an X server running on :1.

Apparently, this process will repeat to an instance number as high as you like. 
I stopped at :5 (CTRL+ALT+F12!!!), thinking this will go on indefinitely. Then 
I killed all the servers and processes associated with X, including gdm (which 
was also running multiple processes).

Questions for you uber-geeks out there:
1. How do you start multiple X servers (in case I want to try it out in a more 
controlled way later on)?

2. Any idea as to what scripts to check out to fix this?

Paul King=========================================================
Paul King              http://www3.sympatico.ca/pking123/


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