In F13 X hogs the cpu?

[Rex Dieter]

Martin Kho wrote:

>> On 31/03/10 12:16, Andrew Mason wrote:
>> > 2010/3/31 José Matos<jamatos at fc.up.pt>:
>> >> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 23:16:46 Martin Kho wrote:
>> >>> Does anyone else have seen X using lots of cpu sources in F13?
>> >> 
>> >> No problem here, with a real install (not a virtual machine :-) ).
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > I got this on my thinkpad X200. Was unusable. Just figured it wasn't
>> > quite baked yet.
>> 
>> Is this the old issue of X and tty racing to start on tty1? I'm sure
>> there is a redhat bz entry about this. Dont have time to search now but
>> will later if noone else finds it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like :-). Upstart is in F13 updated from 0.3.x to 0.6.x. The way
> tty's are handled has changed in this version. It seems that X is fixed -
> again - to vt1. If I'm wrong please let me hear. As a 'workaround' - fix?
> - the changes that were made in F11/F12 [1] have to be reversed:
> 
> In /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc change:
> 
> * ServerVTs = -1 -> ServerVTs=1 and
> * ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6 ->
> ConsoleTTYs=tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6

Not recommended.  Forcing VT1 is what caused the "old issue of X and tty 
racing"

-- Rex