X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

[Casey Dahlin]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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
>
>   
We could either offer a getty on tty7 (not too hard) or we could instead 
add a small API to the kernel that would allow remapping which F key 
went to which tty, so you could have ctrl+alt+f1 bring up tty7. That way 
we could remap things so the user got the correct behavior.

We wouldn't have to actually /do/ this, but if the API were there, we 
can tell the people who care to go figure it out.

--CJD