Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2018-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:46:06 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-12-31 01:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > If you don't mind my asking, what factors make you prefer vanilla to > > gentoo sources? (I assume that's what you use.) > > One reason is security fixes. Sometimes longterm vanilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi all, is there a list of known problems with kernels 4.14.x? I have a problem with hiddev, nut and a usb ups that appears kernel dependent. Cant find anything about 4.14 except for the gentoo-dev list emails BillK On 31/12/17 09:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 December

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 01:13:26 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-12-31 00:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > But the whole 4.12 branch has been masked, so that won't do. Here, > > I've had to go back to 4.9.49-r1 (amd64, not ~amd64). But now I see > > 4.9.72 has been stabilised. I think I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-28 Thread Raymond Jennings
I don't know. If it was a kernel issue directly, I'm pretty sure that manually switching wouldn't be a viable workaround to begin with. The fact that the manual method still works means that your kernel and actual video handling code is probably fine. The fact that it won't work automiatcally,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-25 Thread Mick
On Monday, 25 December 2017 10:07:11 GMT Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Raymond, > > Am Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:59:32 -0800 schrieb Raymond Jennings: > > That sounds like a possible issue with your X configuration. > > > > Did you double check /etc/conf.d/xdm and the like to make sure that your > > VT is