Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-09-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 8/6/19 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-08-06, Ed wrote: On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, whilst I go

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:58:51PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: It should be possible to run something like startx -- :1 to open a second X instance on the virtual console. You have to figure out how to start the second X on the other display. It's not that easy with one multiport video ca

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 aug 19, 16:01:17, Franklin, Jason wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen locker. > > Currently, my workflow involves switching between the screen locker and > virtual > console #1 (/dev/tty1) using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7. This

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-22 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 22, 2019 10:08:16 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Franklin, Jason wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen > > > locker. > > > > > > Currently, my workflow involves switching between the scree

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-22 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 22, 2019 10:08:16 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Franklin, Jason wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen > > locker. > > > > Currently, my workflow involves switching between the screen locker and > > virtual console #1 (/dev/t

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Franklin, Jason wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen locker. > > Currently, my workflow involves switching between the screen locker and > virtual > console #1 (/dev/tty1) using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7. This way, I can > interact wit

Re: Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 04:01:17PM -0400, Franklin, Jason wrote: I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen locker. Currently, my workflow involves switching between the screen locker and virtual console #1 (/dev/tty1) using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7. This way, I can

Display multiple virtual consoles on multiple displays

2019-08-21 Thread Franklin, Jason
Greetings, I'm working on a project that requires me to debug a running screen locker. Currently, my workflow involves switching between the screen locker and virtual console #1 (/dev/tty1) using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7. This way, I can interact with the screen locker until I hit a break p

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Ed Neville
On 2019-08-06 10:31-0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I did, created a user test, logged in, but when I came back to the > machine 10 minutes later, the screen was locked and showing gene as > the default login. dm-tool did work to switch the user. That solves a problem for now. Please don't see this

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 06 August 2019 09:22:15 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-06, deloptes wrote: > > Curt wrote: > >> LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be > >> logged in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal > >> requesting that the current session be locked and then wi

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 07:11:04 (+0100), Ed wrote: > On 2019-08-05 16:59-0500, David Wright wrote: > > Perhaps this is all to do with your DM. I use startx, and since > > stretch the Xserver runs "on top of" the VC that started it, and > > as the user, not root. In the past, Xservers ran as root on

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-06, Curt wrote: >> >> it says multiple users - not the same user >> >> > > curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ man dm-tool > > switch-to-greeter >Switch to the greeter suitable for logging into a new >session. > > Says "logging into a new *session*." (emphasis mine). >

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-06, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be logged >> in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal requesting that the >> current session be locked and then will initiate a switch to LightDM's >> greeter, allowing a

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be logged > in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal requesting that the > current session be locked and then will initiate a switch to LightDM's > greeter, allowing a new user to log in to the system. it

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-06, Ed wrote: > On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: >> > >> > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users >> > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, >> > whilst I go and make

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: > > > > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users > > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, > > whilst I go and make dinner I want to allow someone e

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-05 16:59-0500, David Wright wrote: > Perhaps this is all to do with your DM. I use startx, and since > stretch the Xserver runs "on top of" the VC that started it, and > as the user, not root. In the past, Xservers ran as root on VC7, > VC8, … Does lightdm or gdm act as your greeter? I

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: > > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, > whilst I go and make dinner I want to allow someone else to sit here, > without having to shut applications do

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread David Wright
On Mon 05 Aug 2019 at 21:56:55 (+0100), Ed wrote: > On 2019-08-05 13:11+0200, deloptes wrote: > > IMO you can not run multiple X sessions from the same user. I am not > > 100% sure, but I can imagine what would happen with the session > > manager. > > I have done in the past, one 'ed' would run

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-05 13:11+0200, deloptes wrote: > IMO you can not run multiple X sessions from the same user. I am not > 100% sure, but I can imagine what would happen with the session > manager. I have done in the past, one 'ed' would run xfce and another would run evilwm. However, the majority of u

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-05 09:57-, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-04, Ed wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > > > What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text cons

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-05, Felix Miata wrote: > Curt composed on 2019-08-05 11:29 (UTC): > >> Maybe this is the bug we're looking for: > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834270 > >> Fix (Simon says): > >> * removing the call to /usr/bin/clear_console from ~/.bash_logout >> (console is c

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-05 11:11-0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Fix (Simon says): > > > * removing the call to /usr/bin/clear_console from ~/.bash_logout > > (console is cleared anyway nowadays) > > * replacing the call to /usr/bin/clear_console with /usr/bin/reset in > > ~/.bash_logout Why would bash_

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2019-08-05 11:29 (UTC): > Maybe this is the bug we're looking for: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834270 > Fix (Simon says): > * removing the call to /usr/bin/clear_console from ~/.bash_logout > (console is cleared anyway nowadays) > * replacing the cal

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-04, Ed wrote: > > 1. log in via lightdm/gdm > 2. switch to a text console > 3. run startx and use the window manager for a moment or two > 4. switch back to first session Maybe this is the bug we're looking for: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834270 Fix (Si

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread deloptes
Ed wrote: > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > The way to reproduce the problem is as follows: > > 1. log in via lightdm/gdm > 2. switch to a text console > 3. run startx and use the windo

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-04, Ed wrote: > Hello, > > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > > What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text console can > cooperate with each other, it seems lim

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Ed Neville
On 2019-08-04 20:06-0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Works on 32 bit Buster on host m7ncd here, with one little glitch that > Ctrl-Alt-F3 I've not tried 32bit. I'll get the ISO and give that a whirl. > memory currently lacks any connective dots between > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Ed
On 2019-08-04 22:54+0100, nektarios wrote: > Indeed the problem seems reproducible for debian Stretch with sddm > display manager. > The only logs appearing are from KDE applications (nothing in X11 logs): Could this be systemd? My only thoughts are that systemd starts the x server on a vt, but

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Ed composed on 2019-08-04 21:01 (UTC+0100): > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > The way to reproduce the problem is as follows: > 1. log in via lightdm/gdm > 2. switch to a text consol

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread nektarios
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 18:36:44 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/4/19, nektarios wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 21:01:57 +0100 > > Ed wrote: > >> > >> What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text console > >> can cooperate with each other, it seems limited to lightdm/gdm > >> lo

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/4/19, nektarios wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 21:01:57 +0100 > Ed wrote: >> >> What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text console >> can cooperate with each other, it seems limited to lightdm/gdm logins >> only. >> >> Something happened between jobs which meant I didn't need t

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/4/19, Ed wrote: > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > The way to reproduce the problem is as follows: > > 1. log in via lightdm/gdm > 2. switch to a text console > 3. run startx an

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread nektarios
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 21:01:57 +0100 Ed wrote: > Hello, > > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > The way to reproduce the problem is as follows: > > 1. log in via lightdm/gdm > 2. switch

x and virtual consoles

2019-08-04 Thread Ed
Hello, For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. The way to reproduce the problem is as follows: 1. log in via lightdm/gdm 2. switch to a text console 3. run startx and use the window manager fo

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles(tty1 etc.)

2012-11-21 Thread Herbert Schwarzer
> Yeah, but why does it take several seconds? > Have you tried another DE/WM combination? > So, really in fact, you want to run KDE at a higher resolution than what > your card is capable of? I don't know why the virtual consoles go BLANK only after about 20 seconds,

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles(tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:57:03PM +0100, Herbert Schwarzer wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > perhaps I do not understand your proposal ... if I switch to runlevel=1 > (that's the single user mode, isn't it?) there is no X running, so I can > login as root only in text-mode (console). Correct. Tha

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles(tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Herbert Schwarzer
Hello Chris, perhaps I do not understand your proposal ... if I switch to runlevel=1 (that's the single user mode, isn't it?) there is no X running, so I can login as root only in text-mode (console). X (or graphical user interface such as KDE) is only available at runlevel 2 up to runlevel

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles (tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
; If I switch from KDE-GUI (tty7) to virtual-consoles (tty1 .. tty6) and login > in text-mode --> after a few seconds, theese virtual-consoles will go BLANK. A few seconds? That is weird. What happens if you start in single user mode and login as root? -- "If you're not careful, t

Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles (tty1 etc.)

2012-11-18 Thread Herbert Schwarzer
Following issue occurs (in both flavours Squeeze as well as Wheezy): Running amd64 KDE-Environment. It does not matter running nouveau-graphics-driver or nvidia-graphics-driver (the Debian way ...) If I switch from KDE-GUI (tty7) to virtual-consoles (tty1 .. tty6) and login in text-mode

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 sou

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

virtual consoles

2012-10-04 Thread james gray
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: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ it is installed and functional. I am not using a GUI. I am using the command line only. if i do press simultaneously the ctrl

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

virtual consoles

2012-10-04 Thread james gray
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: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ it is installed and functional. I am not using a GUI. I am using the command line only. if i do press simultaneously the ctrl

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-26 Thread Joel Rees
meters, >>> for any large-character-set language. >> >> jfbterm >> fbterm-ucimf >> fbterm >> bogl-bterm > > apt-get show fbterm tells me fbterm is installed, but I don't see any > .fbtermrc files in the user directories when I login to the vir

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
racter-set language. > > jfbterm > fbterm-ucimf > fbterm > bogl-bterm apt-get show fbterm tells me fbterm is installed, but I don't see any .fbtermrc files in the user directories when I login to the virtual consoles. Do you have a recommendation? > Try one of these

Fwd: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
(Forgot to reply to list.) On 12/25/11, hvw59601 wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: >> For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default >> language to Japanese. > > > > Did you install with Japanese as the default language, or did you > install as some other language and change the defa

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default > language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows > (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in > Japanese, but the Japan

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread hvw59601
Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. Did you install with Japanese as the default language, or did you install as some other language and change the default? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default > language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows > (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in > Japanese, but the Japanese i

displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese is replaced by the Unicode replacement characters ("?"), which is no

Re: gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:36:02AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Hendrik. > > > I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles > > configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is > > 1G. CPU is an athlon. > &g

Re: gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Hendrik. > I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles > configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is > 1G. CPU is an athlon. > > a few months ago, I started experiencing this problem. Sometimes, when > changing vir

gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
This happens on etch, which I try to keep up-to-date. sarge is, as usual, pefectly stable, quite boring, and very useful. I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is 1G. CPU is an athlon. a few m

Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
Finally sorted this one: Denis Barbier responded to my post to the bugtracker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345454 The solution, in my case, was to replace the deprecated 'uk' with 'gb' as the keyboard layout in xorg.conf Switching consoles now works. Thanks to all for hints/

Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tuesday, 21.03.2006 at 10:03:01 +, Dave Ewart wrote: [...] My feeling is that the problem is more fundamental than KDE config, as you also suggested. This is confirmed, because: (a) terminal switching attempts fail when using xdm, gdm and kdm as the login manager. This includes attemp

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 20.03.2006 at 21:35 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I still think that the problem lies somewhere in the configuration of > your X server, since the VT switching works as soon as you leave X by > some other means. > > You are using KDE if I recall correctly; are you also using the > gra

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 20.03.2006 at 17:04 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] left CTRL: keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L) left ALT: keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L) F1:keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1) [...] I get the same keysyms, certainly and the same keycodes as well

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 20.03.2006 at 17:04 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I have played around a bit in the meantime and found that it is easily > possible to redefine the keyboard behavior in a way which breaks the VT > switching; all that is needed is messing with the keysymbols for the > CTRL and ALT key.

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:02:02PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much > everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. > > However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual consoles > us

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
Dave Ewart wrote: On Sunday, 19.03.2006 at 22:37 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual consoles using

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-20 Thread jlquinn
One quick test to try would be to start xev, put the mouse inside, then press C-A-F1. If you get the F1 keycode on the console output, it would at least indicate that X is ignoring the special meaning and that the problem isn't happening at a different layer. Jerry Quinn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 19.03.2006 at 23:11 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > i reported this a few weeks ago on this list (dont you remember???) > (search for the header on my email I don't remember and I don't find it by searching for your email address either! > ctl-alt-F2 or F3 not switching to tty2 or tty3:

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-19 Thread Mitchell Laks
hi i reported this a few weeks ago on this list (dont you remember???) (search for the header on my email ctl-alt-F2 or F3 not switching to tty2 or tty3: running kde. hasn't gone away yet. Mitchell laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-19 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 19.03.2006 at 22:37 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much > >everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. > > > >However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual co

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
Dave Ewart wrote: I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual consoles using Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc. The 'getty's appear to

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-19 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 19.03.2006 at 15:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > >I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much > >everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. > > > >However, I find that I can no longer swit

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-19 Thread Kent West
Dave Ewart wrote: I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual consoles using Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc. The 'getty's appear to

Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-19 Thread Dave Ewart
I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual consoles using Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc. The 'getty's appear to be running OK, b

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

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
> 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 &

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 consoles unresponsive

2004-06-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
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 Ctrl-Alt-Fn, nor can we switch to the kdm desktop

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 l

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 machin

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 acc

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,

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,

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

Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Bloom
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 reports th

Re: how to make unicode mode default for all virtual consoles?

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:58:34PM +0100, Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Currently Unicode mode come's up as default on the first console, but > for consoles 2 to 6 I need to run unicode_start on every console. What > is the proper Debian way to have unicode mode on all vc's by default? >

how to make unicode mode default for all virtual consoles?

2003-11-04 Thread Miernik
Currently Unicode mode come's up as default on the first console, but for consoles 2 to 6 I need to run unicode_start on every console. What is the proper Debian way to have unicode mode on all vc's by default? Second thing: I have created a polish unicode keymak myslef in /usr/share/keymaps/i38

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

Virtual consoles filled with... test pattern?

2002-04-15 Thread Roach, Mark R.
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 screen. It looks like some kind of test pattern. I used to, in mandrake, ha

No text echo in virtual consoles

2001-07-11 Thread Martin Rowe
here and back again. At first I thought the login problems were due to the recent pam issue, but I've done several dist-upgrades (tracking sid) since then, and a login after reboot works fine, as do virtual consoles before and, for a while at least, after starting X. One other thing, which

Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I selected xdm on install but loaded the gnome packages on install. I > > want to run Gnome so how do I get gdm and remove xdm? > > > apt-get install gdm? > > Precisely. It should remove xdm and substitude gdm seamlessly... Wow, I like this Debian stuff. Thanks for

Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles

2001-03-07 Thread ocorrain
> I selected xdm on install but loaded the gnome packages on install. I > want to run Gnome so how do I get gdm and remove xdm? > apt-get install gdm? Precisely. It should remove xdm and substitude gdm seamlessly... Cheers Tiarnan

Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Type 'linux single' at the LILO prompt (press Shift to get the > prompt). You'll boot into single user mode. This is what I needed. > To remove the X/Gnome display manager from your startup scripts, try > '/etc/init.d/xdm' remove (or '/etc/init.d/gdm remove' if you're

Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles

2001-03-06 Thread ocorrain
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:26:04PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I don't know if this is because of a laptop keyboard or what but since > my X setup doesn't work I can't do anything after boot. > > I try the ctrl-alt-bs to kill the x server and that doesn't work. I also > try ctrl-alt-f2 e

Install problems: X and virtual consoles

2001-03-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I don't know if this is because of a laptop keyboard or what but since my X setup doesn't work I can't do anything after boot. I try the ctrl-alt-bs to kill the x server and that doesn't work. I also try ctrl-alt-f2 etc to get a virtual console so I can kill X and that doesn't work. What is t

Re: Bunches of virtual consoles

2000-11-12 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:28:42PM -0500, William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So suppose I wanted to have more than 12 virtual consoles on my system, > but I only have 12 F-keys to select them with. > > I know the kernel supports up to 255... is there any way to use mo

Re: Bunches of virtual consoles

2000-11-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yup - allocate 13-24 and you can use "right-alt + F1-12" > > Rock on. I will never run out of logins again! :} apt-get install screen ;) moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-K

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