? Where are you getting X messages from - startx?

Er.. no, I thought it was happening in runlevel 5.  I can't seem to reproduce it
now.  Must have imagined it..(!)

Aha, found it.  If you install a KDE workstation, X messages go to tty1.  kdm
problem I guess.

This still happens in piglet-0220.

This still happens in piglet-0228.

tim: which X messages are these: the startup information from X, or other
messages?

Startup from X.  It only seems to affect my home machine (a 486), so perhaps
there's a timing issue.

Also happens on my PII 330.
Possible solution:
--- /etc/X11/prefdm.orig        Thu Aug 24 12:01:24 2000
+++ /etc/X11/prefdm     Thu Aug 24 12:03:46 2000
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@
        fi
 fi
 if [ -n "$preferred" ] && which $preferred >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-       exec `which $preferred` $*
+       exec `which $preferred` $* &> /var/log/xdm.log
 fi
 exit 1

I think notting may have incorporated this patch (or one like it).

7.0 redirects output of *dm to /dev/null (Yes, I'd prefer /var/log/something,
too).