Hi; On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, xerces8 wrote: > Hi! > > I need to make XFree86 not do any VT switching stuff. > Is there an option for that ? > I tried the "DontVTSwitch" option, but it does not help. > > What I want is to start X on a secondary gfx card, but leave the text > terminal on the primary unaffected. ( on Linux 2.6.8 kernel ) > > Normally X would allocate the next free vt on start and switch to it, > causing the kernel to show an empty screen on the primary card. > If I use ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to vt1, then it appears on primary display, > but the X server on the secondary card then goes "inactive". > > Is there an option to make XFree86 not allocate a vt ? I take it that you are talking about the VTs that are implemented in the Linux kernel. These have nothing to do with X - other than X uses the first free one in order to produce the display. The number of VTs will be determined by the number of gettys running on the VT devices. These gettys are (usually) controlled by init and are set in /etc/inittab. For instance: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 will produce VT1 thru VT6 and X will use VT7. (/dev/ttyn is a device having a major of 4 and a minor of n.) If you want less VTs the it is just a matter of not running a getty on the device. Tha is by commenting the lines in inittab out. > > Or is there maybe some "dummy" vt that I ccan specify on its command > line , like : > X :0 vt_dummy > ? > > Or any other way to have X on secondary and VTs on primary active at the same time ? This seems to be that core of your problem. I'm not sure whether changing the total number of VTs addresses it. Seems to me that you need a method of forcing X to ignore the first card and only using the second. I do not know how this is done. > > I know a solution with some heavy kernel patching, but I want to find > a solution that works with a plain linux kernel. > > I also tried the "SingleCard" option, but that does not help either. > ( it is in some patch, I guess it is not in the official XFree86 (yet?)) > > Regards, > David Balazic > > P.S.: Keyboard handling : I have no problems with the keyboard. Please ignore the keyboard ;-) > > Cheers -- Peter F Bradshaw, pfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ICQ 75431157 (exadios). PGP public key at http://members.iinet.net.au/~exadios/public_key.html "Needs more salt" - Archimedes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
