Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-18 Thread dave b
On 18 November 2010 23:14, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:41:37AM +1100, dave b wrote: So what's kind of why i asked about how you were trying to find the bug. Don't tell me to search through lots of C code point it out! I don't have time

Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-17 Thread dave b
I noticed this happens often to me too, and I can assure you it’s not a GDM bug. The Linux VT interface wrongly reports vt7 as being in use, before gdm is even started. It does not happen on all systems, so it might be related to KMS - for example it happens with my radeon-based system.

Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-17 Thread dave b
I am using gdm and not gdm3. If you can give me more details as to why you think it is a kernel bug that would be good ^ ^ (also the ordering of this bug report on the website rather weird...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Bug#603767: gdm: starts on v8 instead of vt7

2010-11-17 Thread dave b
So what's kind of why i asked about how you were trying to find the bug. Don't tell me to search through lots of C code point it out! I don't have time for that and you seemed to know more! We so then the question is what happens if it is 'busy' and we attempt to use it anyways ;) ? -- To