[Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

Tue Mar 6 14:56:45 CET 2012

On 03/06/2012 08:42 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> If you are booting to graphical.target then some subset of the lower 
+> ttys would automatically start X+dm on that tty when you switch to it, 
+> but if you boot to multi-user.target it would show you getty. 
+
+By "multi-user target" do you mean level 3 ?
+
+> Thus server installs would be no different to how they've been for 
+> years (which hopefully addresses most of the greybeard complaint) and 
+> for users who don't know what the heck a console login is, they will 
+> hopefully be presented with nice, user friendly login prompts. 
+> Everyone is a winner.
+>> I'm seeing what Olivier is seeing (although this is a desktop system and
+>> not a minimal system).  In my primary desktop, I can hit CTRL-ALT-Fn for
+>> n = 1 to 12, and I get no response at all.  It just stays on the same
+>> desktop.
+> Not sure about that one. Smells like some other bug if it doesn't move.
+> Has your keyboard got a special "fn" key that disables the function
+> keys? Mine does.
+
+Mine does too (bloody Logitech), but Fn keys are enabled., so it's not 
+that.  Is there perhaps something I don't have installed that enables 
+X+dm restart and autovt ?  If autovt were not present or disabled, that 
+might explain why a second X+dm doesn't start (no available vt) ?
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