On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:33:10 -0500 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 March 2006, at 14:59:21 (+1000), > David Seikel wrote: > > > That's actually what triggers the keyboard locking problem in the > > first place. If you don't let X know which VT to run on, it tries > > to autodetect the VT, but it gets into a race condition with init or > > a getty which is also allocating VTs at the same time. The end > > result is that X gets confused, and sometimes ends up with the > > display on one VT, but the keyboard redirected to some other VT, and > > with VT switching disabled for some reason. > > Any distribution which tries to start a getty on the same VT as X is > flawed. Furthermore, Linux has standardized on X being on tty7. That > should always be the default on Linux. Now I think you are just being a troll. Linux is not our only target, hard coding a VT into entrance was considered in the original mailing list discussion and rejected, and your first sentence is just flat out trolling. "Thank you Dave for the work you did to work around some problems that lots of entrance users where complaining about. As you suggested in your commit, I reviewed your autofoo stuff and fixed a flaw in it." Is that so hard to say? I tried doing things the nice way. I participated in the original discussion of the problems. I let it ride for a bit to see if anybody else came up with solutions. I put autodetect.sh in cvs a long time ago, but left it up to people to run it manually. Every time someone complained about the problems it was designed to fix I said "run autodetect.sh" and it invariably fixed the problems. Then people started complaining that autodetect.sh should be done automatically. I let that ride for a bit. Finally, after much time had passed, I made autodetect.sh part of the build. There was plenty of warning, I made no secret of the fact that I wanted it to eventually make it part of the build. As usual, instead of people helping out during the testing phase, people wait until I commit before bitching and moaning about it. I expect this now, some people are just like that. Not really much more I can do. P.S. All I ever want to do is help people. All I ever get in return is abuse. I'm used to it, I don't give a shit anymore about the abuse. I'll just continue to help people no matter what nasty things people throw at me. All it ever accomplishes is to move these abusive people further down on my list of people I will happily co operate with.
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