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Topic: tty1

What's up with tty1? When I boot normally into X I can switch to a console with C-A-F2 and login. C-A-F1 for tty1 is a strange slow laggy console where I can't even type my username and password correctly. What's up with that?

• #! Waldorf • Support #! •
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Re: tty1

Waiting for Mr C to apply a patch to SLiM. See http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/187678/#p187678
You are using SLiM, right?
You can use the other consoles in the meantime, as a workaround.

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Re: tty1

SabreWolfy wrote:

What's up with tty1? When I boot normally into X I can switch to a console with C-A-F2 and login. C-A-F1 for tty1 is a strange slow laggy console where I can't even type my username and password correctly. What's up with that?

That explains why it took me so long to insatll my Nvidia driver, after repeated attempts to enter my password, which i knew i was entering correctly.  I thought it was just me for a minute.

xaso52 wrote:

Waiting for Mr C to apply a patch to SLiM. See http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/187678/#p187678

Is Mr C going to patch SLiM now that he has made available new images with GDM instead of SLiM?

#! Statler (10-20120207) 32bit-BPO Openbox
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Re: tty1

^ If I understood Mr C correctly, he would give the user the choice between GDM and SLiM, and he is using SLiM himself ( I think smile )
BTW: So am I.

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Re: tty1

xaos52 wrote:

Waiting for Mr C to apply a patch to SLiM. See http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/187678/#p187678
You are using SLiM, right?
You can use the other consoles in the meantime, as a workaround.

That patch relates to garbled text. What I was experiencing is that characters did not appear after pressing a key -- it was like the machine was severely lagged (but 'top' showed this was not the case). Only every few characters I pressed appeared. After pressing enter after eventually managing to enter my username, there would be a delay of minutes before the password prompt appeared. I'm not sure if this is the same as "garbled" text...?

• #! Waldorf • Support #! •
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Re: tty1

If I drop to a console via "exit" at SLiM prompt, I am dropped to tty1 which then behaves normally.

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Re: tty1

^ afaik, this is indeed the same. this is the issue many have been experiencing with Slim.

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Re: tty1

Yes. That is the problem I was referring to.
The patch solves this.
It is caused by a program error in the way slim changes to daemon mode.

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Re: tty1

^ OK, A work-around is just to use tty2 (C-A-F2) though. In my experience, that worked. And when exiting via 'exit' in SLiM I got to tty1, but in that instance it worked fine.

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