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Hey everybody!
I recently got an HP dm1z laptop computer. One of the first things I wanted to do was install arch on it. Everything has gone relatively smoothly, but there is something I can't figure out. Every time I put eth0 or wlan0 up or down, I get a message on my tty1 right in the middle of all my other output (it also is recorded in the usual logfiles under /var/log). AFAIK, there is no reason why I should see my ethernet or wireless driver spit out messages on tty1.
If that were it, I probably wouldn't bother you guys. Unfortunately, I also see a random wireless driver debug message every 5 secs, which is really lame. That's why I want to deal with this weird output issue.
In case ya need to know, I have a RealTek RTL8111/8168B ethernet card and a Ralink 539f wireless b/g/n card. The ethernet card runs fine with stock kernel drivers. As for the wireless card, I followed this post to install the driver.
That's all folks.
Last edited by sskeirik (2011-08-04 21:49:50)
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Do you have 'quiet' in your kernel boot line?
Which kernel do you have installed?
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Nope, I don't have quiet on my kernel boot line, but I'll give it a whirl.
`uname -r` reports 2.6.39-ARCH
EDIT:
I added quiet to the kernel boot line, to no effect. I also noticed that I get the weird output on any tty, not just tty1.
After inspecting the log file at /var/log/everything.log, it seems that any message which comes from the kernel is outputted to the current tty.
Last edited by sskeirik (2011-08-04 21:12:52)
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123776 looks similar in that the messages keep spamming.
Try using 'loglevel=2" instead of 'quiet'.
Last edited by karol (2011-08-04 21:17:03)
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Well, I added: 'loglevel=2' to my kernel boot line, and I don't get the messages any more.
Thanks so much for the tip!
But I'm curious. I'm using a default kernel, and I've never had it spit messages at me like that before. Is that a new default behavior I'm not aware of? Thanks again.
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When you upgraded you got
[2011-07-31 18:35] warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew
[2011-07-31 18:35] VERBOSE= in rc.conf no longer has any effect.
[2011-07-31 18:35] Please append 'quiet' to your kernel command line.in your pacman output, right?
:-)
Edit: You might want to see if 'loglevel=3' isn't enough.
Last edited by karol (2011-08-04 21:45:44)
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Well, honestly, I don't remember seeing that message from pacman, but it's quite possible it slipped past me during a 'pacman -Syu' or the like.
I actually can't find the rc.conf.pacnew file, so that suggests I didn't have that update. Anyway, it doesn't matter much that now since the problem is gone. I'll mark this one solved now.
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