Comment # 8 on bug 1224046 from Viktors Trubovics

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #7)
> What if you run "X -retro :0" as root on Linux console after booting with
> the runlevel 3?  Does it appear?

It went to the same state as on the end of "Boot video with loglevel=7"
https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=874762