Interesting. Besides making sure that X ends up on tty7, is there any reason why we have 6 VTs? For all the years I've been using linux in a personal and professional capacity, I think the most ttys I've had active at any given time was _maybe_ 4...otherwise I was doing everything in X. Brian On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:36 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > FWIW: we investigated memory usage of VT's, and it was significant; we > reduced the number of VT's available on the OLPC (3 or 4, IIRC), and > moved the VT X was on, without any problems. > > Of course, our environment is atypical, but that can be said about > everyone's environment... > - Jim > > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:26 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > I'm going to agree with the -1. > > > > Almost all of the "reasons" from the original email boil down to "we've > > always done it this way". > > > > I don't see what the big deal really is. We'd have this same argument > > if someone decided to change the number of getty processes. I > > personally think 6 is too many, but since they don't take up much space, > > I don't care that much. > > > > On the topic of documentation: it should be documented in the release > > notes and elsewhere. The only people that are really going to run into > > this problem are people troubleshooting, and if they're worth anything > > for troubleshooting, they're going to either know its been changed or be > > smart enough to try tty2. > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:57 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:36 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > > > > I would argue strongly that this change should not be made for the > > > > following reasons (in no particular order): > > > > > > > > * The default behavior of X on tty7 has been in place since the > > > > beginning (almost a decade and a half). > > > > > > > > > > -1 > > > > > > Can one man make a difference? I voted for Kodos. > > > > > > Dave. > > > > > > -- > Jim Gettys <jg@xxxxxxxxxx> > One Laptop Per Child > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
