RC1/1.1 virtual tty switching broken

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 13 03:05:53 UTC 2013


On 2013-12-12 18:13 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 17:07 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:

>> In previous Fedora versions one could switch to
>> a console tty with Ctrl-Alt F2 or whatever.
>> Alt-F1 or some such would return to the X-Windows.
>> It is apparently no longer possible to return to X.

> Works fine here. There would be a huge riot on the lists and forums if
> this was broken for everyone; I conclude that it isn't.

Works fine with Nouveau here on NV11.

> Note that X runs on tty1 in most Fedora configs, so ctrl-alt-f1 from the
> graphical desktop will do nothing, because you're trying to switch to
> the tty you're on. X-on-tty7 was the historical 'standard' and you may
> still be expecting that, I guess, but it changed on Fedora several
> releases ago.

On host kt880, kdm-4.11.3-5.fc20.i686 login manager isn't starting even 
though graphical.target is default and I put 5 on cmdline. Startx gets KDE 
going, but on whatever tty I logged in on to run startx, currently 3.
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