From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 13:38:33 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 43C771065672 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 13:38:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christopher-ml@telting.org) Received: from mail.telting.org (mail.telting.org [204.109.56.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE988FC12 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 13:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ares.local (cpe-76-168-204-255.socal.res.rr.com [76.168.204.255]) by mail.telting.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BD72846A; Thu, 12 May 2011 13:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DCBE2D7.9030108@telting.org> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 06:38:31 -0700 From: Chris Telting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CyberLeo Kitsana References: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> <4DCA66A8.8090608@telting.org> <4DCA6DD5.7030005@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <4DCA6DD5.7030005@cyberleo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:38:33 -0000 On 05/11/2011 04:07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > 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 Thank you for answering. I was fearful of that. Just means another project. Related to Kernel Memory Switching I mention of Coreboot on slashdot the other day and I have to say I'm excited by it more than when it was called LinuxBIOS, my understanding now being that it isn't a full Linux kernel buy may eventually become a striped down version of it. I'm hoping that it evolves into a basic real time kernel of it's own and initializing drivers. Hopefully the place where all soft firmware for devices eventually gets loaded rather than in OS drivers; ironically working with the GPL by downloading it's own initializing drivers directly. Be nice to have half second boot times.