gdm 2.24.0

[Fryderyk Dziarmagowski]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:34:39 +0200
"Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Radoslaw Zielinski
> <radek at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > I have backed out gdm 2.24.0 to DEVEL.  Reasons:
> >
> > 1) does not work: hangs the keyboard (only SysRq works) and the
> >   "Shutdown" / "Reboot" buttons do nothing
> 
> It does work - our SystemV starts mingetty after X and tty1 steals
> keyboard input (Xorg takes the first free vte upon start, this is not
> a gdm problem).
> 
> Possible solutions:
> 
> - install upstart-SystemV which brings ttys up before X - that's what
> most distros do
> 
> - move gdm startup to /etc/inittab - that's what the rest of the distros do
> 
> - force Xorg to use a certain tty (there used to be a hack in GDM 2.20
> for this as at this time Xorg did not have vte detection of its own,
> now detection is the recommended way to start Xorg as it allows one to
> have unlimited Xorg instances on one machine)
> 
> > 2) it's not finished, according to http://live.gnome.org/GDM
> 
> Wrong, I'm a GNOME dev and can assure you it's part of GNOME 2.24 release.

So what? There are way too much regressions in 2.24 to include it in
serious distribution.

Being a part a GNOME 2.24 does not mean nothing and the best example
for this is completly unfinished gnome-session. Gentoo will not even
release 2.24 due to seriuos regressions.

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski