Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Jim Gettys]

FWIW: we investigated memory usage of VT's, and it was significant; we
reduced the number of VT's available on the OLPC (3 or 4, IIRC), and
moved the VT X was on, without any problems.

Of course, our environment is atypical, but that can be said about
everyone's environment...
                         - Jim


On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:26 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> I'm going to agree with the -1.  
> 
> Almost all of the "reasons" from the original email boil down to "we've
> always done it this way".  
> 
> I don't see what the big deal really is.  We'd have this same argument
> if someone decided to change the number of getty processes.  I
> personally think 6 is too many, but since they don't take up much space,
> I don't care that much.
> 
> On the topic of documentation:  it should be documented in the release
> notes and elsewhere.  The only people that are really going to run into
> this problem are people troubleshooting, and if they're worth anything
> for troubleshooting, they're going to either know its been changed or be
> smart enough to try tty2.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:57 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:36 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > I would argue strongly that this change should not be made for the
> > > following reasons (in no particular order):
> > > 
> > > * The default behavior of X on tty7 has been in place since the
> > > beginning (almost a decade and a half).
> > > 
> > 
> > -1
> > 
> > Can one man make a difference? I voted for Kodos.
> > 
> > Dave.
> > 
> 
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child