Re: X 4.2 & virtual terminals

[Mark Copper <m.copper@wayne.edu>]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Warren Dodge wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, nate said:
> > Mark Copper said:
> > > I just upgraded to testing to get X 4.2 because it supports my card.  Now
> > > X starts fine but (1) I can't cltrl-alt Fx to a virtual terminal, (2)
> > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop not only kills X but it also kills any further
> > > output to the monitor, (3) nothing is printed to the screen after X has
> > > been killed during shutdown.
>
> Two things come to mind.
> If you've changed your runlevels to login at 4 or 5, you may have to modify
> inittab to allow virtual consoles in runlevels 4 and 5.

my inittab has default run level = 2.  It's not changed anywhere else is
it?  And would that explain why /etc/init.d/xdm stop kills the display
entirely?

> Also, if you're using the agpgart module, that could be the cause of the
> trouble. None of the systems I have that use Radeon 7500's can reliably use
> agpgart. One system allows a single return to console mode and back to X, a
> 2nd trip to the console will crash everything. The other systems are even
> less tolerant.

I commneted agpgart out of /etc/modules and rebooted.  lsmod no longer
shows apgart, but behavior wrt virtual consoles remains the same.

Curious, eh?

Thanks.

Mark