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Old 02-29-2004, 04:35 AM   #1
jon1591
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Question Slackware Virtual Terminal Problem


I installed Slackware 9.1 last week and I am very happy with it. I think it is much better than Red Hat! Anyway I have a problem:
Only Virtual Terminal 6 works (Ctrl+Alt+F6), the other terminals just show a blinking white cursor. Terminal 1 shows all the boot-up messages.

I have tried searching for an answer but I couldn't find anything that was relevent.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jon
 
Old 02-29-2004, 06:14 AM   #2
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Make your Slackware boot into text mode ( init 3 ) not graphical one ( init 4 ) by editing /etc/inittab. Now, edit your startup script ( /etc/rc.d/rc.local ).
Add :
/opt/kde/bin/kdm ( if you use KDM )
or
/usr/bin/gdm ( if you use GDM )

Voila, now you have 6 virtual console......
 
Old 02-29-2004, 02:44 PM   #3
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Or edit /etc/inittab and add a 4 to c1-5 in these lines
c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

That's what controls which terminals are started at what runlevel and Patrick turned off all but 6 in runlevel 4 for whatever reason. (I mean, 6 was left open because there were problems with turning them all off - but I don't get why to turn *any* off.)

Better than either option is just to switch to runlevel 3 and leave it at that. Startx!
 
Old 02-29-2004, 04:48 PM   #4
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I have c1 only for 1235, and I added 4 to 2-5, so 2-6 are accessable for rc.4
I left c1 as 1235 because then I can see any error messages that occur before X loads, and then I also don't have to worry about the messages scrolling away because I accidentally log in using TTY1
 
Old 03-02-2004, 12:01 PM   #5
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Thanks Guys

Sorry I haven't posted for a while but thanks for all your suggestions. I ended up using the rc.local approach because I can't work without X at the moment

Thanks
Jon
 
  


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