On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:52:47PM +0100, Michael Graham wrote: > Michael wrote: > > The Hurd package got recently changed. /hurd/kbd has been removed, so > > you can't run X from the Mach console anymore. You should run the Hurd > > console (console -d vga [...]) with the option --repeat=/dev/kbd, like > > 'console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=/dev/kbd -d generic_speaker > > /dev/vcs' > > Thanks, I got it working. I was wonder if you (or someone else on the > list :) knows why when I logout of X the console is full of /'s? It > still works but it isn't very usable (I'm using the vesa driver in case > that helps)
Yeah, this is a known problem with the Vesa driver, me and somebody else noticed it as well. One solution is to detach the Hurd console (via ctrl+alt+backspace) and reattach it (via console -d vga [...]). Using the ati driver made this issue go away for me. Maybe Marco has an idea why this happens. > > This will hopefully just work[tm] once the Hurd console is started > > automatically on bootup. > > I thought this would be easy to I just had a script in /etc/init.d/ that > did > > console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=/dev/kbd -d generic_speaker /dev/vcs > > and when it ran at S99 I got a blank screen, does this command require > me to login? Or do I need to run something else first? Hmm, good question. I haven't tried this. Perhaps somebody else can shed some insight into this. Michael
