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kandros

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From: italy

Registered: 2011-09-20

Posts: 20

tty black screens

hello archers, from boot till i log into X i can access ttys form 1 to 6 but after i log into X ttys became just blackscreens, why?
tty are decommented in inittab

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: tty black screens

Can you post your inittab just so everyone can be on the same page?  How do you start x, login manager, startx, etc?

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kandros

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From: italy

Registered: 2011-09-20

Posts: 20

Re: tty black screens

http://pastebin.com/BAcPnqca

i have slim as login manager and i start awesomewm from .xinitrc

Trilby

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Re: tty black screens

Nothing looks out of place, except the slim line syntax is unfamiliar to me.  Where you have

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

I have

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >/dev/null 2>&1

Perhaps yours is a redirection syntax I'm not familiar with, but it's not clear to me what that should do.  If slim output isn't properly redirected I imagine it *might* be possible that this is interfering with other processes.  But that's a real shot in the dark.

EDIT: This is likely just my ignorance - changing my slim line to match yours does not replicate the problem.  Scratch this idea.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-01-16 16:14:08)

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kandros

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From: italy

Registered: 2011-09-20

Posts: 20

Re: tty black screens

i read is some topics that the problem may be caused by video driver, but i'm trying chakra-linux right now, it uses the same drivers but tty does works...