X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 16:20:14 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:57 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Shouldn't be a big deal though, if plymouth does that vt
>> switch right after KMS entered graphics mode and before printing
>> anything on the screen it should went unnoticed.
> 
> Good explanation, except that KMS only works for a very limited set of
> ATI graphics cards, and nowhere else.

But without KMS the X11 start will mode-switch and thus flicker anyway,
no matter whenever tty1 or tty7 is used, right?

cheers,
  Gerd




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