[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

Sun Dec 18 11:32:19 CET 2011

On 17.12.2011 17:27, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> On 16.12.2011 20:16, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> Hi
+>>
+>> Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default.
+>>
+>> So if you want a text login shell, make sure you go to tty2!
+>>
+>> I've not actually updated it for sysvinit now I think about it, so I'll
+>> have to update the default inittab, but the principle is the same. We
+>> want X there, not a login.
+> 
+> I wonder why that is needed...
+> 
+> If it is to prevent flickering when switching tty1->tty7, can't we just
+> e.g. make the kernel use tty7 by default if needed?
+
+For the record, attached are three alternative [1] untested
+proof-of-concept patches that make kernel start on vt7.
+
+It doesn't seem to be as simple as I had hoped, but if this is something
+we want to do, I can come up with cleaner versions and see what upstream
+thinks.
+
+BTW, I know fedora uses vt1 for X, but what about other distros, e.g.
+Ubuntu/Debian?
+
+
+[1] by default only the first vt is initialized on early boot, the rest
+are initialized on-demand. Since vt7 is not initialized, the patches
+take different approaches: (1) allocate 7 vt's on early boot, (2)
+allocate vt7 in addition to vt1, (3) only allocate vt7
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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