kmscon and regular VT conflict or interfere with each other?

Sanjeev K Sharma · 2013-09-17 21:06:37

I wanted to try kmscon but since there have been reports of instability I wanted to keep one regular getty/VT around.

kmscon starts fine (manually through "systemctl start") on isolated TTYs fine , but no sound (as expected) but no other strange behaviour.

for some reason alsa didn't work - "aplay -l" showed no devices on the normal or kmscon tesminal,

and 3D acceleration in virtualbox didn't work (machine wouldn't start until 3d is unchecked), with starx started from either terminal.

I've ended the experiment for now; for the next time, has anyone got this working or is keeping both around a bad idea

and second is this instability rare and I'm being overly cautious & should just go with kmscon completely?

Last edited by Sanjeev K Sharma (2013-09-17 21:58:34)

Sanjeev K Sharma · 2013-09-18 01:45:12

OK, actually it looks like it's not a problem of mixing the 2 types of console, it's kmscon doing things differently. I've seen reports of the audio problem but I thought I had triggered something different because of the virtualbox issue.

so I'm logged in on a couple of kmscon's, and audio appears on none, virtualbox won't run with 3d acceleration in an xorg started from a kmscon VT, but everything works (audio, virtualbox with all features) when I'm logged in on one getty'ed console VT.

zwa · 2013-10-09 17:44:48

I have the same virtualbox issue. So if I understand correctly I cannot use virtualbox with kmscon?

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#1 2013-09-17 21:06:37

kmscon and regular VT conflict or interfere with each other?

#2 2013-09-18 01:45:12

Re: kmscon and regular VT conflict or interfere with each other?

#3 2013-10-09 17:44:48

Re: kmscon and regular VT conflict or interfere with each other?

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