Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-27 Thread Gaijin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:40:23AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You can add more in /etc/inittab: just copy/paste the getty line and > increase the two numbers. Yeah, I know about that, but I wonce heard it mangles Debian's flippin way of doing everything, or at least trying to move th

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-27 Thread Jason White
Mario Lang wrote: > Upstart is indeed the most likely candidate, but the transition will > take time. Squeeze+1 or Squeeze+2. Last time I looked at upstart, it > was not really ready to replace the current system. In Fedora and Ubuntu, from what' I've read, the existing init scripts are still

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Gaijin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:37:03PM +0100, Mario Lang quoted: >> Josselin Mouette writes: >> >> > it’s been a long-standing tradition on Linux to have 6 started getty >> > processes, in tty1 to tty6. However this doesn’t correspond anymore to >> > t

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-27 Thread Mario Lang
Jason White writes: > Samuel Thibault wrote: >> You can add more in /etc/inittab: just copy/paste the getty line and >> increase the two numbers. > > And the procedure will be slightly different (I haven't checked out the > details) if and when Debian moves from System V init to Upstart or whate

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-27 Thread Jason White
Samuel Thibault wrote: > You can add more in /etc/inittab: just copy/paste the getty line and > increase the two numbers. And the procedure will be slightly different (I haven't checked out the details) if and when Debian moves from System V init to Upstart or whatever the chosen successor is. Su

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gaijin, le Sat 26 Dec 2009 22:21:24 -0800, a écrit : > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:37:03PM +0100, Mario Lang quoted: > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > > > it’s been a long-standing tradition on Linux to have 6 started getty > > > processes, in tty1 to tty6. However this doesn’t correspond anymore

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-26 Thread Gaijin
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:37:03PM +0100, Mario Lang quoted: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > it’s been a long-standing tradition on Linux to have 6 started getty > > processes, in tty1 to tty6. However this doesn’t correspond anymore to > > the way we use our machines. I use all six, a

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-12-26 Thread Mario Lang
Josselin Mouette writes: > it’s been a long-standing tradition on Linux to have 6 started getty > processes, in tty1 to tty6. However this doesn’t correspond anymore to > the way we use our machines. > * I don’t think we need more than 2 of these. They are still > useful for server