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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:48:09 +0100
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Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:41:26 +0000 schrieb Jörg Schaible:

> Hi,
> 
> after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two
> machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I
> can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I
> boot with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and
> the login screen of SDDM appears directly while the rest of the modules
> is loaded in background.
> 
> Both machines have older Radeon chips (REDWOOD and CEDAR) and I managed
> to load also their firmware with the new kernel 4.14.7, but there's
> still no automatic switch to VT7 anymore.
> 
> I found nothing obvious in /var/log/messages, dmesg or Xorg.0.log. What
> may cause this weird behavior?

If I remember right (many months ago), I fixed it by changing one line 
in /etc/sddm.conf:

[X11]
ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -keeptty
                              ^^^^^^^^
                   This is where the magic happens

You may want to add or remove that parameter...


-- 
Regards,
Kai

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