This one time, at band camp, alan brown said: > > I tried reconfiguring package getty but was told that it is not > installed and has no available information > > So I did an apt-get install on it and was told that it existed in the > database but had no available version. But that the package util-linux > replaces it, and I have the latest version of that. > > So I tried reconfiguring that but it ignored the command. Perhaps it > did everything behind the scenes, so I just rebooted. But, no, the > same problem exists. > > The oddest thing about the whole thing is that when my blue/green > screen comes up, I can't just do ctrl-alt-F7 to get the login screen. > I have to do ctr-alt- Fn, and then do ctrl-alt-F7 to get it. And then > I log in to X, but am still unable to use the text consoles. > > I'm using kernel 2.4.18-386. It tells me that getty doesn't exist > but that util-linux replaces it. Does that make sense? It's > definitely saying that I can't install getty, but perhaps that's > because its supposed to be part of the kernel? > > Any thoughts > > alan
getty apparently used to be a seperate package, but is now part of the util-linux package. In the absence on any additional information, though, I think this may be barking up the wrong tree. It sounds like this kernel you installed may be using a framebuffer, and this is dong screwy things to your display settings, and it's reset by leaving X and returning to it, at a guess. Try disabling it (pass video= options to lilo) to see if that helps. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #2: solar flares | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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