On 09/09/2014 12:57, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brian Potkin, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:51:59 +0100, a écrit : >> Basically, (but please see later), X starts on the first free console >> under both syvinit and systemd. > > I know. But isn't ReserveVT supposed to make X avoid VTs from 1 to 6? > >> I wonder whether you quite understand the purpose of VT6. > > I don't know what you mean by "VT6" here, but what I can read is: > > ReserveVT= > Takes a positive integer. Configures the number of one virtual ^^^ > terminal that shall unconditionally be reserved for autovt@.service > activation (see above). The VT selected with this option will be > marked busy unconditionally, so that no other subsystem will > allocate it. This functionality is useful to ensure that regardless > of how many VTs are allocated by other subsystems, one login > "getty" is always available. Defaults to 6 (in other words, there > will always be a "getty" available on Alt-F6.). When set to 0, VT > reservation is disabled. > > Xorg is "another subsystem" allocating VTs to me. the above > documentation explicitly says that the VTs should be marked busy, and > thus Xorg wouldn't use them. But apparently this isn't working.
It reserves *one* VT for a getty (i.e. only vt6), not the range 1-6. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org