X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Tue Oct 28 14:09:28 UTC 2008


On Tue October 28 2008, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
> > By the way, I cannot understand why gdm, when running before mingetty
> > (for better startup speed), must be run on tty1 only. It seems that it
> > should be possible to run it before, but cause it to use tty7.
>
> It's not for speed, it's so there will be no VT switching when booting.

Imho then the kernel should be patched to start booting graphically using tty7 
and not tty1. Then you have no switching and do not disturb text-only 
machines.

Regards,
Till
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