On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have > > > 'getty's up to tty11, X will be on tty12. > > > I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded > > into it (or was that xdm?) > > I don't think it's hard-coded because I've had X running on tty8 before > and don't know how or why it was there. As long as I've been using > Linux, it's always been on tty7 and I could hit "Crtl-Alt-F7" without > looking. I did it and all I got was a flashing cursor... tried it again > and made sure I was hitting "F7". Still no X. Tried "F8" and there it > was. > > Regards > Hall > > >
No it's not hard-coded since I modified inittab to have 2 less virtual terminals (I'm fine with only four and I want to save memory). The result is that X start under tty5. It's really the next available tty that is chosen. However, I do remember that when I was using XF86Setup (long time ago :)), usually X would start on tty6 for no reason, like if tty5 was still under X control. However, I'd really like to know why X is doing that. Since we are talking about X (and don't want to start a new thread), has anyone had success using SVGALIB along with X? On Mandrake, I had to wait a couple of second between terminal switching... Since I'm a french user, please forgive my bad english :). Coronya
