On 8 January 2013 15:53, Timothy Meade <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, auto detecting if VT switch is needed means > introducing an inconsistencty. Dummy and evdev can both work without > allocating a VT, and there are cases where that may be useful, such as > debugging a server or input driver. > > Would an explict -forcetty or -forcevtalloc be an option? There are already > distro specific configuration scripts for setting up Linux for blind user, > could they add this option when they configure the dummy output?
There is already -novtswitch option. Making a corresponding -vtswitch would be simplest provided it overrides the HW_SKIP_CONSOLE override. The OP however wants the X server to DoTheRightThing(tm) automagically but there is no agreement yet what the right thing exactly is. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
