virtual terminals go away...

virtual terminals go away...

Post by Clint davi » Sat, 13 May 1995 04:00:00



I have an intermitant problem - sometimes, rarely at most, the vt go away. No
amount of Alt-Fn will switch between 'em. You are stuck on the present
terminal.
Even the console is unreachable.  The user with this proble has noticed that it
might be related to having multiple emacs on some of the vts. Once I had to
poweroff the machine because the keyboard was inoperative.  But this is quite
rare.

Any ideas?

Clint

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virtual terminals go away...

Post by ivan pulle » Sat, 13 May 1995 04:00:00



>I have an intermitant problem - sometimes, rarely at most, the vt go away. No
>amount of Alt-Fn will switch between 'em. You are stuck on the present
>terminal.
>Even the console is unreachable.  The user with this proble has noticed that it
>might be related to having multiple emacs on some of the vts. Once I had to
>poweroff the machine because the keyboard was inoperative.  But this is quite
>rare.

Well,
  This was happening to me for a while until I realized I was hitting
ctrl-s and causing a scroll lock.  Next time try ctrl-q to undo it.  This
may be your problem.

Ivan...

PS - I think this is the wrong newsgroup for this thread

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1. Virtual Terminals go away after login to KDE

Greetings,

Well, I've been fighting this Virtual Terminal quagmire for about two
weeks now and still no luck. At the point even you have any idea at all,
no matter how wild or insane it might seem to you, please, Please, don't
bogart it. Pass it along ;-)

The problem:

Everything was working fine until it became necessary for me to compile
a kernel. I have everything working in my new kernel except the virtual
terminals don't work once I log into X Windows (KDE). The virtual
terminals do work after boot up during the time you have the KDE login
prompt. I can hit CTRL-ALT and one of the F1 thru F6 function keys, and
get a console. Then I can hit CTRL-ALT-F7 to go back to the login
screen. But if I complete the login, and I'm in the KDE environment, I
cannot get a virtual terminal. I only get a blank screen. And then I
can't go back to X either unless I kill X from another machine to
respawn it.

I had been fiddling with the 2.4.2-2 kernel that came with my RedHat 7.1
CD-ROM most of this time. This evening I tried the new 2.4.14 kernel but
the VT's still wouldn't work. I wasn't able to get RedHat support to
help me so I am completely stuck at this time. The machine is useless to
me without VT's because I need them to switch between X sessions
connected to Work computers at the office.

I sure would appreciate hearing from you guys, thanks,
Rich Looke

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