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Date:      Wed, 11 May 2011 06:07:01 -0500
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?
Message-ID:  <4DCA6DD5.7030005@cyberleo.net>
In-Reply-To: <4DCA66A8.8090608@telting.org>
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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?

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