On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:04:04PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 27 mars 2010 à 09:16 +0100, Guido Günther a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:24:36PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > The init script is called gdm3 in the new package, so it isn't having > > > any effect. > > You're right. I though it'd provide gdm and gdm3 but it doesn't. > > In this case you should disable the start target alltogether in > > plymouth's init script. > > I thought I’d make it provide gdm, but unfortunately insserv chokes when > you do that. > > > > That's a good question, when I have a little more free time I will try > > > out the patches and see if the VT switch is a problem. > > Well shouldn't this work out if we launch plymouth on the same VT as > > gdm3? Upstream has quiet a bunch of new code for this in 0.8.x. > > Cheers, > > Launching plymouth directly on vt7 could indeed be a solution, but I > wonder whether X will actually use vt7, or whether it will think it’s > already occupied and launch itself on vt8.
Fedora has this patch for that: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gdm/F-13/plymouth.patch?revision=1.2&view=markup Plymouth touches a force-display-on-active-vt to tell gdm to take over. This part is upstream in plymouth but the gdm part isn't, as it seems. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
