Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 00:33:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:18:12 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your > > intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using > > 4.14.x and go back t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:18:12 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your > intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using > 4.14.x and go back to say 4.12.x ? But the whole 4.12 branch has been masked, so that won

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
It took a lot of work, but this latest kernel 14.4 enables support for machines with 128 pebibytes of RAM, up from the old limit of 256 TiB. On 12/30/2017 05:16 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On my thinkpad, 4.14 crashes ... when I build audio support into it. But who uses that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 02:18:12AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's probably a dodgy kernel point bersion, 4.14 is problematic. > > Alice Ferrazzi posted this to gentoo-dev earlier today: > > =start quote= > [ lots of problems ] > = end quote= Now that’s interesting. On my thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/12/2017 17:41, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no > longer switch to SDDM on > VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM > and login as usual. If I boot > with the last stable ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-23 Thread Raymond Jennings
That sounds like a possible issue with your X configuration. Did you double check /etc/conf.d/xdm and the like to make sure that your VT is indeed set to 7. Also double check your display manager configuration. If your manual VT switch works fine I'd suspect a misbehaving display manager possibl

[gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I boot with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and the login s