X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 20:43:15 UTC 2008


Casey Dahlin (cdahlin at redhat.com) said: 
>>> Imho then the kernel should be patched to start booting graphically 
>>> using tty7 and not tty1. Then you have no switching and do not 
>>> disturb text-only machines.
>>
>> Having the kernel parse its own commandline for a runlevel (a concept that has
>> nothing to do with the kernel, and doesn't even exist under some init systems)
>> and then choosing to rearrange the tty init sequence based on that?
>
> I don't think that's what he meant. I think he meant simply for tty7 to  
> always be the active tty on boot. That's a bit easier to stomach.

If you don't add the bits I mentioned, then you'll get a blank tty7
when you boot in text mode. Which is presumably not what you want.

Bill




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