Re: virtual consoles

2012-10-06 Thread james gray
Thanks Mike , that is a bit thick for me. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > Howdy, > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:38:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:08:49AM -0700, james gray wrote: > > >Does any one know of - info source to set up virtual co

Re: virtual consoles

2012-10-04 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:38:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:08:49AM -0700, james gray wrote: > >Does any one know of - info source to set up virtual consoles in the > >network install of Debian Squeeze 6.0??? > > OK. You've been following a bit of a re

Re: virtual consoles

2012-10-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:08:49AM -0700, james gray wrote: >Does any one know of - info source to set up virtual consoles in the >network install of Debian Squeeze 6.0� > >that comes from here: > >[1]http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > >it is installed and functional. > >

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-24 Thread Ricky Clarkson
You could run savetextmode on a machine with as close a configuration as possible, copy the files over and try it, but check the risks in doing this, as it is a server that you don't want to reboot, let alone crash. On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:45:52 -0700, Carl D. Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I d

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-24 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 07:24, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > > So the problem > > > seems to be strictly with the display. > > > > > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I ta

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > So the problem > > seems to be strictly with the display. > > > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I take > > another look at the console, I'll press the shift key

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > So the problem > > seems to be strictly with the display. > > > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I take > > another look at the console, I'll press the shift key

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:26:27AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:48, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > I've lost the ability to switch virtual consoles on my Woody system. > > One of the sysadmins logged in as the backup user through the kdm > > desktop and when he logged out the m

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: > So the problem > seems to be strictly with the display. > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I take > another look at the console, I'll press the shift key on the keyboard > and the kdm display will appear. I can the

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:46, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > Perhaps you could take down the X server using /etc/init.d/xdm stop > (or gdm or kdm if you use those). That might give the monitor time to > adjust itself, which restarting X wouldn't do. > I tried that, didn't help. > If that gives you a sh

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Perhaps you could take down the X server using /etc/init.d/xdm stop (or gdm or kdm if you use those). That might give the monitor time to adjust itself, which restarting X wouldn't do. If that gives you a shell, use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to sort out the config. If it doesn't, you coul

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:48, Carl D. Blake wrote: > I've lost the ability to switch virtual consoles on my Woody system. > One of the sysadmins logged in as the backup user through the kdm > desktop and when he logged out the monitor went dark. Now we can't > switch to a virtual console using Ctr

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-06 Thread Richard Hoskins
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it > takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my > machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints > /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I g

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:48PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > | I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes > | an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's > | virtual consoles be

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:48PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: | I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes | an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's | virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is | ready to accept logins agai

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote: > Ken Bloom wrote: > >>I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an >>inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual >>consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to >>a

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote: > Ken Bloom wrote: > >>I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an >>inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual >>consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to >>a

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
Ken Bloom wrote: I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init rep

Re: Virtual consoles filled with... test pattern?

2002-04-22 Thread Roach, Mark R.
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 13:07, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 15, 2002, Roach, Mark R. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This is a very strange variation on a problem I experienced > > occasionally in mandrake. My console windows are now filled with > > vertical lines. Mostly purples, but all sor

Re: Virtual consoles filled with... test pattern?

2002-04-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 15, 2002, Roach, Mark R. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is a very strange variation on a problem I experienced > occasionally in mandrake. My console windows are now filled with > vertical lines. Mostly purples, but all sorts of other colors too. > nothing I type shows up on the scr

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yes, quite right. What I was thinking of was that the terminal you start > from is effectively out of use as long as X is running because it > contains the starting-up stuff. You can also kill X from that terminal. I use a shell function (which t

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Nov 1999, Mike Werner wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > This gives me 5 terminals. X comes out in the terminal "above" the one > > you use for startx; I do this in the last terminal (5) and X is in 6. I > > believe it is possible to have 64 terminals in all. > > Not quite. X will come

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 12:11:26AM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > I'm not sure what happens if, for instance, one user was to startx from, > say, VC 1 and then another user, for example root, was to do startx from > another VC. Would that start another X on VC 8? I think I'll have to try > that next

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Mike Werner
Anthony Campbell wrote: > This gives me 5 terminals. X comes out in the terminal "above" the one > you use for startx; I do this in the last terminal (5) and X is in 6. I > believe it is possible to have 64 terminals in all. Not quite. X will come out in the VC one higher than the last one that

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Nov 1999, Michael Perry wrote: > HI all- > > I recently decided to show someone that linux had a number of virtual > console and had known for quite awhile that X ran on the 7th. Imagine my > surprise when my Debian slink system shows up on VC 2 and there is nothing > but a blinking cursor

Re: Virtual Consoles

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like > mingetty? > > I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not > possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does wh

Re: Virtual Consoles

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not > possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am > wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen (i.e Does it support some > features mingetty does not, when used for vi