Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:41:26 +0000 schrieb Jörg Schaible:
> Hi,
>
> after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two
> machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I
> can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I
> boot with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and
> the login screen of SDDM appears directly while the rest of the modules
> is loaded in background.
>
> Both machines have older Radeon chips (REDWOOD and CEDAR) and I managed
> to load also their firmware with the new kernel 4.14.7, but there's
> still no automatic switch to VT7 anymore.
>
> I found nothing obvious in /var/log/messages, dmesg or Xorg.0.log. What
> may cause this weird behavior?
If I remember right (many months ago), I fixed it by changing one line
in /etc/sddm.conf:
[X11]
ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -keeptty
^^^^^^^^
This is where the magic happens
You may want to add or remove that parameter...
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Regards,
Kai
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