Re: X and tty7

2009-04-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me. Why can't it > just use the first available VT by default, like the X server does by > itself? > There's a race if you start both X and getty at the same time, and both decide tha

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:08:16PM +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? > # > # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System, > # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X. > > Wh

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: I would set 'FirstVT=24' in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and then edit /etc/inittab to add as many consoles as needed if this is what you want (personally Thanks. -- Miguel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,12.Apr.09, 14:35:28, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If I read the comments right gdm will allocate VT 7 to X11 (don't > > know what happens if VT 7 is already taken by getty or so). > > I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me. Why can't it > just use the first available VT by defa

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-12 13:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,12.Apr.09, 20:05:30, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >>> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? >>> >>> It depe

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,12.Apr.09, 20:05:30, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >>> How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? >> >> It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but did you ever try 'screen'? Well, I asked, HOW does it depend

Re: X and tty7

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but did you ever try 'screen'? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it wel