On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:54:54PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: > On 3/31/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-- > Thanks, Andrei........ what you explained was exactly what I found. X > was not running in terminal 1 at all as I expected, but was "hiding" > (from me at least) in terminal 7. > > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose??? >
On VC1 you ran startx. X spits its stderr to VC1 and continues to do so as long as it is running. It paints a display on the next available VC (standard debian has this as VC7). The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace works when you are viewing the X system in VC7. In VC1, X is spitting its output but isn't reading input on that VC. I _have_ had a case where X wouldn't respond to _any_ magic keystrokes. This is another reason why I have a getty running on a serial port. I can always log in from another computer via a null-modem cable. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
