VT switch during X startup

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:36:06PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> The xorg server is blocking VT switches while it is starting and at
> the login screen. I want to start it, have it hit a breakpoint, and
> then be able to switch to the debugger. I have two video cards.  Is
> there some easy way to disable the VT switch block?

If you edit programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_init.c, you
can disable the syscalls to switch VTs.  I did this a while ago for
Debrix (so I could watch the enormously verbose log scroll past and see
where it locked up), and it worked alright.

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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