I can't switch from tty to tty. When I start up (I use startx for X) I can't even switch from tty1 to any other tty at all. When I'm using KDE, and I switch to a tty I have to use Ctrl-Alt-F*. When I do, it switches to the tty and after that I can't switch back to X or any other tty.
View 9 RepliesI have searched the web, tried getting support on IRC, and even tried some drastic measures that I came up with on-the-fly, but could not get satisfactory results.After installing the 2.6.31-20 kernel, I have noticed, that virtual terminals ( or whatever should I call those. The ones that are accessed by ctrl+alt+[function_key]) stopped loading. When I open any of them I only see a cursor and nothing else. I can take almost no actions: the only two things that actually work are changing between terminals and ctrl+alt+delete.
Eventually, I gave figured out, that this happens because getty is not launched automatically. After running appropriate command, each terminal can be recreated for the current session. Tried fixing this by creating a script that would run that command on each startup, but could not actually make the script to be executed (I tried making rc to run it, as I need these terminals to be present when GUI is not yet activated).Right now, I see two possible solutions: either make them autoload like they are supposed to, or work out a way for that script to be ran on startup. So, any ideas?Ah, yes. Also, the GDM now loads on tty2. Will it give me problems if it continues like that?
I have a laptop which has only one serial port.
I went into:
How do I know which of those "ttyS" refers to my serial port?
[Arch Linux] This has been mildly annoying ever since I installed Arch. From X, I can switch to any of my ttys, using Ctrl+Alt+FN. But when I'm in a console, that key combination does nothing, and I have to restart X11 to get back.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'd like to know how to leave only tty1 and 2 and permanently disable others. (I'm running Lenny/i386).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using 9.10 and my ability to "ctrl + alt F-dey" to a ttys shell no longer is available after running an update. 10.04 has the same bug. Getty is installed and I can not figure out what happened.
How do I get ttys back?
I'm trying to complete the porting to RHEL 5 of a commercial application that we've had running on AIX and SCO for decades. It originally ran on dumb-terminals, and even now runs on dumb-terminal emulators that run on Windows. We have thousands of customers, many of whom we'd like to migrate to Linux. We're pretty much done with the port, with the exception of this little glitch we're having with pseudo-ttys...
Our app utilizes pseudo-ttys, such that sub-portions of the application run under a screen manager that provides for screen-switching of multiple instances of the sub-apps on non-GUI terminals, some of which are still running serial. In this regard, it is not unlike the GNU "screen" program. However, it also supports file transfers over serial links using zmodem, and requires the ability to switch in and out of a fully 8-bit transparent mode where the screen switching keyboard commands must be ignored.
On AIX, we're using the BSD TIOCUCNTL (UIOCCMD) capability to send commands from the sub-app to the screen manager. TIOCUCNTL provides custom user ioctls and is an ideal way to solve the problem. It is not implemented on Linux, and the "alternative" of TIOCPKT does not provide arbitrary ioctls so at best we'd have to commandeer some of the existing TIOCPKT ioctls for our own use if that's even possible. TIOCPKT seems like a hack, it apparently was implemented not as a general mechanism but to solve problems specific to rlogin/rlogind.
SCO didn't support TIOCUCNTL either, so years ago we used the SVR5 alternative of putmsg/getmsg. This is a streams-based mechanism of sending control information over streams separate from the data. While RHEL 5 seems to have man pages indicating these commands exist, and in fact you can link programs using them to libc without errors, they are apparently stubbed out and return "function not implemented." This seems to be, according to this Wiki, due to certain Linux factions deeming that streams are "technically inadequate":
Certainly, I would agree that a streams implementation that is incomplete is undoubtedly "technically inadequate."
At the same time, it would appear that the SVR5 method of pseudo-tty is now the recommended implementation, the BSD one being "deprecated" (not to mention, also incomplete on Linux, given TIOCUCNTL is missing):
So here I am trying to figure out how to solve the problem. I have found a library that apparently implements the getmsg/putmsg commands for Linux, called libLiS. However, according to IBM, it has a problem with SELinux:
We've had to disable SELinux for other reasons anyway, so this is not a show stopper for us, and I am actively exploring using it as our solution. However, I've never been exactly crazy about the idea of depending on disabling security features to make something work. But, there's something to be said for the compatibility it would offer for our apps.
However, it occured ot me that we are probably not the first to have this problem, and was wondering if perhaps there is another solution that we should consider.
It has occured to me to use named pipes, but this would be rather ugly--we'd have to maintain a directory full of hundreds of named pipes, probably named after the associated ptys that the sub-apps could use to issue control commands to their screen manager, and the manager would have to monitor these pipes for commands, etc.-- certainly possible, but it seems like it might be re-inventing the wheel a bit, or at the very least, is a somewhat kludgy work-around to the apparent lack of any user-customizable control mechanisms in the pseudo-ttys. And we'd have to support it in addition to the code for the other methods since those platforms aren't going away anytime soon (SCO death-throes notwithstanding).
After the 10.04 upgrade all my CTRL-ALT-F1-6 terminals are squished up at the top of the screen. it's as if the vertical was pushed all the way to the top. You can't read anything. Here's a picture of it.http://imgur.com/7FKGoI'm running Nvidia binary drivers and everything seems to work great otherwise but I can't even find one person with this issue. I tried IRC already but no luck there yet. vga=795 is set in /etc/default/grub which is the correct res and depth
View 5 Replies View RelatedFresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, Gnome session fails to start. Gnome-failsafe and XFCE work great. xsession-errors: [URL].... i also cannot switch between ttys, if i do video becomes blured to the point of unreadable. I think this is an issue with X. I have tried the generic kernel (non-pae) with noapic and apci=off with no results.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn my terminal only system ( no Xorg or guis ) I have a font rendering issue. In place of some symbols ( eg double-lines and some other miscellaneous line-drawing shapes) are generic diamonds. Attached is a fbgrab ( png format ) of elinks showing the problem. I have now configured elinks to only use single lines drawing characters ( which work fine ) for now as a work around. Here is my /etc/default/console-setup
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# Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing
VERBOSE_OUTPUT="no"
# Setup these consoles. Most people do not need to change this.
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
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The numbers in the FONTFACE show the size of the font matrix. For example Lat2-Terminus20x10.psf is a font for codeset Lat2 with size of the font matrix 10x20 (i.e. 10 columns and 20 rows). If the number of columns is 8 then only the number of rows is specified. For example the font matrix of Armenian-Fixed15.psf has size 8x15.
In text video mode or if you use the RadeonFB kernel module only fonts whose font matrix has 8 columns can be used (that is the size should be a simple NUMBER rather than a NUMBERxNUMBER combination). The other fonts can be used only with framebuffer video modes and with the package 'kbd'. The console package 'console-tools' can not be used
with such fonts.
THE TERMINUS FONT:
The aim of the Terminus font is to reduce the eyes-fatigue when one has to read a lot. Currently this font supports only the Latin, the Cyrillic and the Greek scripts (the Lat15, Lat2, Lat7, CyrAsia, CyrKoi, CyrSlav, Greek, Uni2 and Uni3 codesets). The fonts with font face TerminusBold and size 14 or 16 are optimized for 8 pixels width glyph matrix (in most cases this means framebuffer). The fonts with font face TerminusBoldVGA and size 14 or 16 are optimized for 9 pixels width glyph matrix and can not be used with
framebuffer video modes.
The fonts with font face Terminus and size 14 or 16 can be used both with 8 and 9 pixels width glyph matrix. In the regular text video modes the width of the glyph matrix is 9
pixels. If you use the package svgatextmode then the width is 8 or 9 pixels and you probably know it. The Terminus font in this version of console-setup is version 4.26.
This is a C++ program I wrote years ago that has been chugging along fine with no problems until I recently upgraded from Slackware 13.0 to 13.1. Suddenly the process dies with a segfault. I recompiled against the new libraries and still no luck. This is the offending bit of code:
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int comm_handler::transmit(const byte* out, size_t len) {
size_t written = 0;
ssize_t count;
int fail = FALSE;
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When it is called with out = "ATH0 " and len = 5, I get a segfault. When I call it with out = "ATH0 " (note trailing space), it goes through. Unfortunately I need a carriage return at the end or the modem doesn't process the command.
I have been given the task to install slackware 13.1 over windows. I have downloaded and copied slackware 13.1 on to a disk, and rebooted the computer, but i am not getting what all the tutorials have shown. I have been looking for tutorials that specifically instruct me as to how to install slackware 13.1 on to a windows xp. I am not trying to dual run I just simply want to run slackware and slackware only.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a couple questions about Xfoward.
1: How much does it affect securty, over a lan network?
2: Will it cause any other security issues?
3: The most important is can I forwad X11 from a 32 bit slackware to a 64bit slackware
it's possible to compile the 2.6.37 kernel patched with the autogroup patch on a Slackware 13.1 system running 2.6.33.4-smp with 2.6.33.4 headers? I just compiled and installed the 2.6.37-autogroup kernel from AUR on my ARCH setup and I like it especially when using firefox with lots of tabs open and other background apps also running. I did notice a speed and smothness difference in my ARCH testing setup with this kernel patch and I can get same results in 13.1??
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed slackware 13.1 x86_64 bit with multilib, and its been about a month already, I'm really enjoying slackware but I am being troubled with my nvidia card, and I need to get my 3D acceleration working. And I've been looking around the net for information and kept on trying to make my nvidia card to work but to no avail. I cant get X to start, once I put in a xorg.conf stating to use the nvidia card. After troubleshooting for almost 2 weeks and now at my wits end, I now come humbly looking for help in linuxquestions slackware community forum.I've installed nvidia 64 bit kernel, drivers from slackbuilds (version 256.44). The laptop model I'm trying to get it working is an -ASUS K52J Intel Core i3 2.40Ghz with 2GB RAM and with an Nvidia Geforce 310M with 1GB dedicated VRAM.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Slackware Linux 13.1 , and my Wireless is down. I've only installed 3 Linux disto's on my main laptop (Ubuntu 9.10 , 10.04 , and Crunchbang Linux 9.04 , just had Crunchbang), and they all had the same problem. In all three , I was able to enable Windows Wireless drivers and every thing worked. Now , I'm assuming I have to the same ting in Slackware? Sorry , but I have no idea what my wireless card is. But I know that my laptop is a Dell Insprion E1705. One last thing , I did ifconfig and that wlan0 is my Wi-Fi interface. I typed ifconfig wlan0 up to see if that was the problem. After I did that , I got and error message. Then I typed ifconfig wlan0 down to see if it was down and it made wlan0 down. I tried bringing it up again , but I got an error saying it couldn't find the device specified. Also , how do I install XFCE? I really don't like KDE for some reason and would like to install XFCE. I chose XFCE over GNOME (my favorite) because I want to try something new.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm happy to announce Linvo 2009.1 rc6. It's a full-featured Linux distribution with a lot of applications by default, including an office suite (OpenOffice.org extended with plugins), a good internet browser (Firefox extended with plugins), a music player that supports music collection and a lot more - Exaile, a video player, and all the available codecs. It can open all types of file formats. It's a LiveCD, which means that you can test it without installing and after this optionally install it - it has a nice easy graphical installer.
It's the first Slackware-based LiveCD distribution with GNOME by default. It includes NetworkManager and initng in place of sysvinit. It also features accessibility tools. It is also the first release with the innovative portable applications system. This allows you to download application from the site (modules section), place it where you like, and use it. It's just a single file, no directories. You can also use this application without installing it, directly from the internet. However, after this, the speed of the application is limited by the speed of your connection, of course. Check out the "Applications" section on the website.
Besides this, you can install software with the apt-get-like system "slapt-get" and it's graphical front-end: GSlapt. It also contains src2pkg and sbopkg in case you want to compile something from source or existing SlackBuild Depfinder is included to find dependencies of packages. Click here for a guide on how to use those. I also managed to put development tools in there, like GCC, G++, svn, cvs, so on... This is a release candidate, and despite that it's OK for using. It has a bit more things to do until the release (like language selection on the boot menu), but I decided that it's important to put it here for testing.
Lost my wireless keyboard and mouse upgrading slackware current.Boot seems to be normal.I just can't login, cause have no keyboard.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe are pleased to present one of our new creations: pkgbuild, a tool written in standard C++, using libCURL, ZLib, BZip2 and libLZMA (part of XZ). It is a modern Slackware packages builder, network-transparent, multi-architecture, designed to greatly simplify the creation of a package, automatically executing the required post processing.
What does it do? Recognize and build packages for the following architectures: i386, i486, i586, i686, x86_64, IA64, IA32e, s390, s390x, sparc and sparc64.
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how to on enable ling separate X sessions with dual monitors in slackware? In rhel all I have to do is enable it under the nvidia-settings... In slackware it does not work that well... to what I understand you have to configure a separate x session...
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to bring my Slackware system back to life as my XP HDD is dying... I've got everything working except for my audio. I got a new motherboard (ASRock P43DE3) and it has a VIA VT1708S as the onboard audio. Is there any way I can get this working without rebuilding the kernel?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI noticed that the official Slackware packages don't contain static libraries. The SlackBuild scripts from slackbuilds.org or from Slackware DVD usually contain --disable-static option to prevent building the .a file. And if configure script doesn't allow such option, the .a file is deleted before the package is created.I am wondering what is the reason for that? Is it just the matter of conserving disk space? Are there also other reasons?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI try to install Slackware to my IDE hard drive and boot first from Slackware DVD. After I loaded huge.s kernel, and tried to partition the hard drive using fdisk by entering "fdisk /dev/hda", I found out that the partition size is max to 3 Gigs instead of 80 Gigs.
I think the kernel is looking at my boot disk, which is around 3 Gigs. How can I make so that it looks at my IDE drive instead at my boot drive? Is there any manual that shows me how to install Linux from scratch this means I want to wipe out all my hard disk and install Slackware Linux there?
I recently bought the Alfa AWUS036h which uses the Realtek rtl8187 chipset. I am able to load the module and connect to any network, but its almost as soon as I try to load a page the connection drops. It never stays connected for more than 30 seconds. My other computers using the same adapter in the same spot work fine, unfortunately there not running slackware. I've tried compiling the newest stable kernel and checked the rd.inet1.conf settings.
View 6 Replies View Relatedslackware-current kernel 2.6.35.10-smp for instance if i just want to connect to wep ap. i done
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it says waiting for carrier and it just time out, im wondering why i read somwhere that its not working good with slackware 13.1
I have installed multilib support in my 64bit slackware 13.37 installation than I proceed it to install google earth from slackbuilds... and did ln -sf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3Now when I try to run google earth I get:[ 760.092745] googleearth-bin[3647]:segfault at 984f7d31 ip 00000000984f7d31 sp 00000000ffbfe100 error 4
View 14 Replies View RelatedI created this small how to install the binary Blender 2.49b on Slackware 13.1 86_x64 Multilib.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Do..._Blender/Linux
Is there a script which will take the patches subdirectory of the latest Slackware distribution tree, and substitute the new patch txz files for the ones in the slackware subdirectory so that during an ISO install, the latest txz will be used, instead, and the ISO will be minimized by not having the older ones?
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe Slackbook reads:
Quote: The precompiled Slackware kernels are available in the /kernels directory on the Slackware CD-ROM or on the FTP site in the main Slackware directory. I am unable to reach it, what's the proper login?
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pls delete this post if I should not do this as it is included in [URL]..How do I recover from the 99 error when I start my system? I can only get to my Slackware by booting into it from the Slackware DVD.I have re-run lilo but I keep getting the 99 error on start up.
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