Starting X on a differente VT

That one was kind of tricky! The documentation is not explicit about that. But here is:

startx -- :1 vt2

The above command will start a new display(:1) in the second virtual terminal(accessed by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2)


source: http://www.computing.net/answers/linux/how-to-boot-knoppix-as-root/28471.html

Scrolling and Tapping stop working on xorg 1.5

I just updated from Xorg 1.3 to 1.5 and some functions on my touch pad are gone.

First of all, Xorg 1.5 depends on HAL to access the input devices but I decided to keep the old-fashion way(input devices sections on xorg.conf). So, first thing to do is disable HAL support on xorg.conf.

Section "ServerFlags"
    option  "AutoAddDevices"        "false"
EndSection

Second of all, here is the configuration that I'm using to work both, scrolling and tapping clicks:

Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier  "Mouse0"
#       Driver      "mouse"
#       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
#       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
#       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
      Driver         "synaptics"
      Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
      Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
      Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
      Option         "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
      Option         "SHMConfig" "on"
      Option         "Resolution" "1600"
      Option         "rightedge" "5000"

      #Enable Tapping
      Option          "TapButton1" "1"
      Option          "TapButton2" "2"

      #Enable Scroll
      Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "1"

EndSection