From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 11:07:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097D6106566C for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:07:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from paka.cyberleo.net (paka.cyberleo.net [66.219.31.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A068FC13 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.44.4] (den.cyberleo.net [66.253.36.39]) by paka.cyberleo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98CD329652; Wed, 11 May 2011 07:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DCA6DD5.7030005@cyberleo.net> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 06:07:01 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110416 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Telting References: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> <4DCA66A8.8090608@telting.org> In-Reply-To: <4DCA66A8.8090608@telting.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:07:03 -0000 On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: > I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen > terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to > either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work while > it boots up for a couple minutes and I'm tired of manually switching > back to text mode. It's gets annoying the 200th time. You could script it right after X starts, as such: vidcontrol -s 1 # Equivalent to Alt-F1 I don't think X is currently designed to start without initializing the graphics hardware, though, so the initial vt change is probably unavoidable. Perhaps once KMS trickles down? -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/