Re: Booting with console=ttyS0 and gdm/xorg strangeness

2007-09-23 Thread Tim Day
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 01:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > However, re the serial console, you can have more than one console > set. > See the remote-serial-console-HOWTO. I would suggest that your serial > console be in addition to the standard tty. The order matters but I > forget it; see the

Re: Booting with console=ttyS0 and gdm/xorg strangeness

2007-09-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:55:39PM +0100, Tim Day wrote: > In order to try and diagnose some rare system freezes which seem to have > started following upgrade to etch, I'm booting the problem machine with > an added > console=ttyS0,9600n8 > boot option, and have another machine connected by a se

Re: Booting with console=ttyS0 and gdm/xorg strangeness

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 22:55:39 +0100, Tim Day wrote: > However, when gdm comes up following the boot, I now can't type > anything, not even ctrl-alt-Fn to another virtual console. (Mouse is > fine though). But if I ssh in from another machine and restart gdm, > once it's comes up again it respo