Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:43 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> > and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again
> > (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server
> > to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the last time I tried
> > it I ended up with two X servers, one on VT 7 and one on VT 8!
> > I had to reboot to clean things up. This situation is a mess and
> > seems to be getting worse. As long as you login to GNOME only once
> > per boot and shutdown the system from GNOME you won't have this
> > problem. The initial allocation of VT 7 after a reboot works fine.
> > But if you logout of GNOME after logging in, you're likely to have
> > this problem. It doesn't seem to fail all the time, though. Perhaps
> > it is a timing-related problem.
>
> I've noticed this too lately, although i use the nvidia driver created
> by module assistant.
>
> I wonder if anyone not using the nv or nvidia driver also see this?
>
>
I seem to have this all the time, even right after booting, although...
I have 3 displays, and 2 ports on my GPU, so I often switch them, after
doing so, I copy the relevant xorg.conf to it's proper location, and
restart gdm. In doing so, I only log in into the first console, using
ctrl+alt+F1, do the copy and /etc/init.d/gdm restart, at this point x is
running in VT8, not 7. Up till this point, I haven't logged in to gnome.
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