"-novtswitch" has no effect
Submitted by pos..@..tel.de
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
When starting, X seems to perform a vt switch on two places:
- hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_init.c:switch_to()
- Somewhere behind
The first is needed in order Xorg only to grab the mouse/keyboard (instead of both Xorg and console). The second seems to be the display driver switch which shows the graphic screen.
Especially the first vtswitch is needed for debugging with gdb+breakpoints.
The problem on my system is: even when invoking Xorg with -novtswitch the vt gets switched so I had to remove the code in the first place in order to be able to debug X.
Logs and system are specified with Bug 92784 (same problem).
Please tell me if you need more information.