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berktt

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Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 3

tty1 Problem

Hi,

I have a peculiar problem (at least in my experience). When I switch to tty1, the keyboard input is very unresponsive, as in sometimes it registers my keystrokes, and sometimes it does not. I do not have this problem in tty2-6, for that matter.

Here's the output of "ps aux | grep tty", if that helps.

root      1112  0.0  0.0   3900   592 tty4     Ss+  10:40   0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
root      1113  0.0  0.0   3900   588 tty5     Ss+  10:40   0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
root      1114  0.0  0.0   3900   588 tty6     Ss+  10:40   0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux
root      1117  4.4  1.4 137312 57768 tty7     Rs+  10:40  18:52 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt07 -auth /var/run/slim.auth
root     13964  0.0  0.0   3900   592 tty3     Ss+  17:40   0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
root     13973  0.0  0.0   3900   588 tty2     Ss+  17:40   0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
root     14005  0.0  0.0   3900   588 tty1     Ss+  17:40   0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
berk     14023  0.0  0.0   8400   972 pts/0    S+   17:41   0:00 grep tty

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: tty1 Problem

I'm not sure if it's related but https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=888879

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: tty1 Problem

I'm not sure if it's related but https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=888879

I'd put real money on it

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berktt

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Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 3

Re: tty1 Problem

I'm not sure if it's related but https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=888879

Yep, that is exactly the problem I've been having. So, the solution given is to ignore the problem (Slim) and just ignore tty1 and use the others I guess it shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for the link karol.

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 1,191

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Re: tty1 Problem

It also happens when one uses mingetty to auto-start X, by the way. At least it does here.

Edit: I had a broken setup (halfway between init 3 and init 5) which might have affected this... Now (init 3) my tty1 is filled with error messages anyway (I think it prints all the stderr messages from X apps), so I'll use tty2 if I need to .

Last edited by stqn (2011-07-05 14:43:28)

Dastingo

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Registered: 2011-01-15

Posts: 41

Re: tty1 Problem

It also happens with LXDM, and only tty1 gets this issue, other ttys are fine, so I consider it a minor problem.
Also switching to init 3 disables this issue and when switching to init 5 it appears again.

(Does this issue appear with gdm or kdm?)

berktt

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Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 3

Re: tty1 Problem

(Does this issue appear with gdm or kdm?)

From what I have understood, no. Unless of course, for some reason you are using Slim as the login manager for gdm or kdm instead of their default login managers, then yes.

silverzhao

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Registered: 2011-07-05

Posts: 33

Re: tty1 Problem

I've also had this problem before, but after a long time googling, I found the solution!
Just add the file "00-stdio" to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d, and in the file is:

#!/bin/bash
exec </dev/null >&2

Then chmod +x 00-stdio, that's all.

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