Re: X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

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Matthew Woehlke (mw_triad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
>> If you don't add the bits I mentioned, then you'll get a blank tty7
>> when you boot in text mode. Which is presumably not what you want.
>
> So add an explicit switch to tty1 in runlevel 3. It shouldn't flicker  
> because it's not changing display modes (at least, I don't remember  
> flicker switching between mingetty VT's; can't check right now because  
> X->VGA switching doesn't work on this machine). Where's the problem?

You're having the kernel operate on Fedora specific commandline options
to start on a completely different tty, one that could be configured
by anyone locally to do something else entirely. (Unless you do it in
userspace, which means you jump away and then jump back for text mode,
which...)

Bill

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