From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) Subject: Kernel/tty problems Date: 1 Aug 1992 19:00:30 GMT
Hi,
I have just got a new VGA card it X windows looks great. It's actually
practical now. So I tryed to recompile the kernel to give me one console
and 16 pty's. When I boot off of the disk that the new kernel is on
everything works as expected up until the rc script is supposed to start
running. But it dosn't. Anything I type is echoed back to the screen. When I
press Scroll Lock I get info on only two processes (pid 0 and 1). pid 1 is
/etc/init (right?) but it never starts up the rc script. I put some printf
calls in /usr/src/linux/init/main.c to see what was happening and It seems
to execute up to execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init); (or something like
that). Isn't that what's supposed to happen?
*** Not Totally Related ***
Also, I have tried to change /etc/inittab to contain the one line:
console:console:/bin/getty 9600 /dev/console
this seems to do what I want it to do except that when I run X it won't read
input from the keyboard.
Thanks,
Larry