On Thursday 25 January 2007 20:12:27 golfer wrote: > I installed beta1 base a couple days ago on a laptop and initially > things worked ok. I have dial-up via a usb modem, which worked for > the first day, but now won't. > > I have been installing more software as I get it downloaded. First, I > installed xorg and got it configured with blackbox. This took quite a > while because I have and ati X1400, which was not recognized at all by > xorg, but works on the latest fglrx release. > > When I successfully wrote an xorg.conf, I used init 5 and init 3 to > demonstrate it worked. Next I tried to "init 5", but it failed with a > message about no xdm. So, I installed xdm and tested it successfully > with "init 5". When I set /etc/inittab to boot into run level 5, the > reboot failed with columns of numbers filling the screen .. at the > top was words like udev and debug, but nothing else made sense to me. > I rebooted and it succeeded in starting xdm and I could log in. But, > now the bad news, when I go to init 3, the screen goes blank and I do > not have any virtual consoles to work with. Checking the log reveals > nothing remarkable at the time. I have booted a number of times since > this without boot problems, but the consoles never work when I try > init 3 from blackbox. But, if I try C-A-F1 it will dump me into vc1 > .. however, if I enter "init 3" from vc1, the same problem occurs: the > screen goes blank and the vc's are all dead. What's wrong with run > level 3? > > I was able to get kdebase installed, so now have a web browser to try > researching the wiki, but my usb modem (slmodem) has stopped working > .. it just freezes the phone line and I have to unplug it to free the > phone. By the way, I think it's a problem with the slmodem driver, > because, I uninstalled it, and trying compiling the > slmodem-20061021.tar.gz from linmodems, and it would not successfully > compile. Also, there are a lot of emails at linmodems.org regarding > problems with the 2.6.19 kernel. > > All my hardware is fine .. I'm using kubuntu on another partition and > the same usb modem right now. > > I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this problem further. > > regards, > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
Can you please send a copy of your inittab? -- Guillermo A. Amaral, BCSE @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ # nick: thewonka / thewonka81
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