HELP 2.6 kernel and X terminal. [FXx]

contrasutra · 2003-09-22 01:16:31

So I compiled the 2.6 kernel, and with much help from people on IRC, I got it working.

Everything seems to work except that when I open an X terminal (gnome-terminal, xterm, aterm, konsole), it doesnt work. They just dont open.

How strange?

Does anyone have any ideas?

The regular text terminal works though.

I get this when running xterm:

xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys

Toth · 2003-09-22 02:24:43

I made the same error at first. You have to enable the devpts filesystem under filesystems. If I remember correctly, it appears directly after the devfs setting.

After that, add the following line to your /etc/fstab:

none  /dev/pts  devpts  default  0  0

contrasutra · 2003-09-22 02:50:52

Yeah, that fixed it, thanks.

2.6 is awesome, EVERYTHING is faster, and multi tasking is a dream.

Ive been messing with the configs though, so lets see how long it takes me to break it again.

contrasutra · 2003-09-23 00:42:32

just upgraded to -mm4, everything runs even better.

Nice stuff.

Ghost Dawg · 2003-09-23 02:02:33

How did you upgrade to kernel 2.6, using pacman or did it manually?

contrasutra · 2003-09-23 02:30:27

manually with help from here:

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799

scottro · 2003-11-02 17:10:23

Just a mention that the addition of adding the devpts to /etc/fstab solved the problem for me as well as mentioned in this thread

Guest · 2003-11-04 12:35:21

Thanks for all the help folks. I finally got a 2.6 kernel working with the help of the posts on this board. Couldn't do it in Gentoo or Slackware or Debian but is works great in Arch. I even stole the kernel and source (test9-mm1) along with modules-init-tools from my Gentoo partiion. Strange that what I compiled in Gentoo would not work in Gentoo but copied over to Arch, it works like it was compiled just for my machine. Wait a minute...it was compiled for my machine, just not compiled for Arch.

Arielext · 2003-11-04 15:00:49

So how about uploading a 2.6test kernel to incoming?

Yes I know, I'm a lazy bastard

nifan · 2003-11-04 19:40:06

hehe i would like that also, and the PKGBUILD for module-init-tools to
yes i'm really lazzy to

red_over_blue · 2003-11-05 00:01:07

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=9655#9655

red_over_blue · 2003-11-08 03:14:52

Sorry 'bout the broken link in the previous post, all fixed now

Guest · 2003-11-15 02:45:16

Thanks for that easy way to install module-init-tools. Just one little prob in the package: you should also treat 'insmod'. Keeping the old insmod in plae prevents, for instance, the NVidia drivers to install correctly. That said, it's just a matter of seconds modyfing the script. peace!

red_over_blue · 2003-11-15 03:00:30

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=9655#9655

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#1 2003-09-22 01:16:31

HELP 2.6 kernel and X terminal. [FXx]

#2 2003-09-22 02:24:43

Re: HELP 2.6 kernel and X terminal. [FXx]

#3 2003-09-22 02:50:52

Re: HELP 2.6 kernel and X terminal. [FXx]

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Re: HELP 2.6 kernel and X terminal. [FXx]

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Re: HELP 2.6 kernel and X terminal. [FXx]

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