[ale] Changing the default tty that XFree86 starts on?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Jul 23 14:44:26 EDT 2004


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:09 pm, Michael Still wrote:
> 
>>X should just grab the next available free tty. Start all your gettys
>>then fire up X and it should grab what's left.
> 
> 
> Correct.  Of course, if you configure 12 ttys, it becomes tricky to switch to 
> tty13.  So You might consider not running getty on one of your ttys.  If you 
> don't run one on tty1 then X will be on tty1 and the other ttys will all be 
> on ctrl-alt-f[2-12]

Me thinks you might want to leave at least ONE tty console available.  I 
don't know, call me foolish...

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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