How do I start a second X server

[Hansen]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 14:38, Rasmus Back wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have two graphic cards in my system and I'm trying to configure the
> second card so that I can use its tv-out feature to play dvds on my
> tv. Since I only watch movies once in while I'd like to be able to
> start a second X server with a minimal window manager and specify the
> server layout for the tv-out video card. Probably something like
> "startx twm -- -layout tv-out :1".
> 
> I thought that the startx command would do it but it fails with the
> error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm:  bad command line option "twm". startx
> without the "twm" option tries to start another gnome-session on vt8.
> 
> So, any suggestions?
> 
> Rasmus
> 
You can do it with gdmflexiserver, that bring the gdm login again and
login with different session and user.

Hope this help.

Hansen