The Red Hat solution is to have /etc/X11/prefdm, which is a symlink to the "preferred display manager". /etc/inittab runs /etc/X11/prefdm, which is ordered to stick to ttyv7. The Debian way would be to do a similar thing using /etc/alternatives. I'm not an expert in this area of Debian, so I'm not trying to say this is the best solution, only that it does work on Red Hat and that I don't think it was in one of your lists.
> Richard Braakman disagrees, and says that we have always shipped Debian > with a not-fully-installable Optional priority. Why don't we find out if > attacking this display manager problem really is going to solve issue 2) > generally? Well, I disagree with Richard Braakman here, but he's in charge of release engineering and I'll happily defer to him. Perhaps this would be a worthy release goal for woody? > > Number (1) is a wishlist item. > > I wouldn't trivialize it to that degree because of the consequences when > you lock up the console of a standalone box. I wasn't trying to trivialize it; just describe the appropriate place to file that portion of thd bug. Thomas
