Re: What controls X?
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:49:50PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >
> >after some update long time ago, kdm is starting on console 9
> >instead od console 7 (which is deafult).
> >
> >I could still not find out, where X is controlled at. I found this process:
> >
> >root 10358 7.8 1.9 146300 41052 tty10 Rs+ 19:13 14:11
> >/usr/bin/X :0 vt10 -br -nolisten tcp -auth
> >/var/run/xauth/A:0-DzJNF
> >
> >Examing the system, I found in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> >
> >exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
> >
> >where "$@" I suppose is the console-number.
> >
> >But where does it get from? In kdmrc the terminal is configured,
> >that it should use the next free console (ServerVTs=-7).File
> >/etc/inittab is identically like on my other computers, where X is
> >still running on console 7.
> >
> >Just on my amd64-system it is started wrong. Although it is not a
> >big problem at all, I am very interested, how things work
> >together, as I found no misconfigured configuration yet.
> >
> >It would be nice, if someone might point me, which configs are
> >involved, and maybe which steps I should check, to get X back to
> >console 7.
> >
> >(besides: Of course, it is working, if I change
> >
> >ServerVTs=-7
> >
> >but as this setting is workingh on all my other systems, I want to
> >leave it as set by default and find out, why the same settings
> >differ only on this special machine.
> >
> >Hope, someone knwos better, as I try to solve this now since months.
> >
>
> I note that with gdm3 X jumps to console 8 upon restart of gdm3.
>
> Hugo
>
I've had the impression that X has been showing up in random consoles ever
since squeeze testing but I never looked into it.
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Freeman
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