Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Tue 29 Mar 2011 18:17:34 +0200, a écrit :
> > Note that the Hurd console also has a number of drawbacks. (One of which > > you actually mention later on: not seeing kernel messages. But there are > > other issues too.) So the preference is not at all clear. There is a > > reason why it's not enabled by default... > > I'm not really sure such reason make it not a sane default for lambda > users. The kernel message issue perhaps not... But the bug(s) making it pretty much unusable for some users might be a problem. OTOH, they probably don't manifest in QEMU -- so maybe not relevant in this case... > And we should actually rather simply provide a /etc/init.d/hurd-console > script, which can thus be started (or not) the usual way. Sounds like a good idea :-) > > > As user: sudo startx > > > As root: startx (not recommended) > > > > Why root? It works fine as normal user here... It's generally not > > recommended to run a whole X session as root. > > Maybe the default parameter of the Xorg wrapper is to accept only > console-logged in users (which doesn't work yet on the Hurd). But the very same guide explicitely advised using the "everyone" setting instead because of that... -antrik-
