Re: Console question (2x)
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have
> > > 'getty's up to tty11, X will be on tty12.
>
> > I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded
> > into it (or was that xdm?)
>
> I don't think it's hard-coded because I've had X running on tty8 before
> and don't know how or why it was there. As long as I've been using
> Linux, it's always been on tty7 and I could hit "Crtl-Alt-F7" without
> looking. I did it and all I got was a flashing cursor... tried it again
> and made sure I was hitting "F7". Still no X. Tried "F8" and there it
> was.
>
> Regards
> Hall
>
>
>
No it's not hard-coded since I modified inittab to have 2 less virtual
terminals (I'm fine with only four and I want to save memory). The result is
that X start under tty5. It's really the next available tty that is chosen.
However, I do remember that when I was using XF86Setup (long time ago :)),
usually X would start on tty6 for no reason, like if tty5 was still under X
control. However, I'd really like to know why X is doing that.
Since we are talking about X (and don't want to start a new thread), has
anyone had success using SVGALIB along with X? On Mandrake, I had to wait
a couple of second between terminal switching...
Since I'm a french user, please forgive my bad english :).
Coronya
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