> By any chance, did you install a package called "desktop-base" during your > last upgrade? I'm not certain that this is the correct package name, but I > recall installing a package that caused kdm to ignore the kdmrc file and > read, instead, a file installed in the /etc/default directory. After > installing it a couple of times I finally learned to avoid it. > > HTH > > cmr >
This was a god idea, but sadly not the reason. I agree with you, that some package might be responsible for this. As I set in kdmrc a negative number for vt, it takes the highest non used terminal by the kernel. I tried to set vt=7 in kdmrc, and yes, that worked. X then is on vt7. But this thing I knew before. What I want to find out more is, why debian is suddenly changing the use of tty7 and tty8. I still found no way, to find out what processes need tty7 and 8, ps did tell nothing. I still found out, that debian-desktop changed initrd-image, another point, that the kernel seems something to do with this behaviour. Obviously only few people seem to know, what is causing this. I googled a little bit, and vt9 seem to be used in other distributions, too. On the other hand, a friend of mine is using sid/amd64, too, and his X is running on vt7. Really weired.... Anyway, as it is not a bug at all, it is not serious, but it would be just nice to know, what is happening. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
