I'm wondering whether anyone else has attempted using the latest
development kernels with their favorite Mandrake distribution.
I've installed 2.3.18ac10 and compiled it up. Everything goes smoothly
until I reboot and attempt to login. I am able to enter a username, but
once I hit the <ENTER> key, the screen redraws without the normal
password prompt.
Thank goodness I've got syslog pushing messages to /dev/tty8, else I'd
have no clue what's going on with this. Here's what it spits out:
/sbin/mingetty[280]: tty1: invalid character
/sbin/mingetty[288]: tty1: invalid character
/sbin/mingetty[289]: tty1: invalid character
/sbin/mingetty[290]: tty1: invalid
character
That's one line per login, four login attempts.
I figured that if textmode was going to be a pain, I'd boot into X.
Again, everything goes normally. I _am_ able to login at the KDE login
screen, but once KDE starts, I'm unable to use the keyboard. Control-C
seems to work, as I can see another command prompt scroll in, but typing
into them is impossible.
I've checked everything that I can think of in troubleshooting this
problem, but truthfully, I'm stumped. If the keyboard works for logging
in, why doesn't it work for usage? If it works for X, why not console?
Has anyone witnessed this and worked through it?
I'm using Mandrake 6.0 and it's 2.2.9 kernel for the moment, but I'd
really like to dig into 2.3.x.
Thanks for any help!
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
