Fedora moves the X server

Posted Oct 29, 2008 18:17 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246)
In reply to: Fedora moves the X server by nix
Parent article: Fedora moves the X server

I tend to agree. Put the primary interface first. X has become the primary interface for the vast, vast majority of workstations. (I can't really speak for headless servers. I'm a "desktop Linux user.")

As long as I can get to a text console when X gets messed up, then I'm happy. Whether it's Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn't really bother me.

What I don't quite understand is the "speed up" part. Is it that X has to search for an unused TTY and then tell the kernel to switch to it? Can't X just be told what TTY to go to, rather than having to discover it? Or at least patched to skip TTYs that will be dedicated to something other than X?

Fedora moves the X server

Posted Oct 29, 2008 20:06 UTC (Wed) by ianburrell (guest, #47313) [Link] (1 responses)

It takes some video cards and monitors a long time to switch modes when changing virtual terminals. Some of the people on the Fedora mailing list were talking about 3 seconds per switch.

Fedora moves the X server

Posted Oct 30, 2008 14:22 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

Here's where I'm confused: How is that a function of switching to VT7? If I start X on VT1 or VT7 or VT493, either way it needs to switch into graphics mode and the monitor needs to resync. That's the source of the 3 second delay, isn't it?