[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Raymond,

Am Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:59:32 -0800 schrieb Raymond Jennings:

> That sounds like a possible issue with your X configuration.
>
> Did you double check /etc/conf.d/xdm and the like to make sure that your
> VT is indeed set to 7.

Content of /etc/conf.d/xdm
======= %< ==============
CHECKVT=7
DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm"
rc_use="mysql"
======= %< ==============

> Also double check your display manager configuration.
>
> If your manual VT switch works fine I'd suspect a misbehaving display
> manager possibly being confused by bad configuration

Then, why does it work seamlessly when I boot with the old 4.12.12 kernel?

Since I have this behavior with two desktop machines, I thought others might haven been affected as well ...

Cheers,
Jörg