diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
index a3fe811f4d..4ebda8b297 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
@@ -13,5 +13,7 @@ do_install() {
 
 inherit allarch update-rc.d
 
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "weston kbd"
+
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "weston"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 9 5 2 . stop 20 0 1 6 ."
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init/init b/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init/init
index daa7f2300f..284fd0ac3c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init/init
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init/init
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ case "$1" in
                 chmod 0700 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
         fi
 
-        weston
+        openvt -s weston
   ;;
 
   stop)