On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Russell Stuart wrote:
There are a lot of possibilities unfortunately. I know 2.6.30 brought
some real changes in the way the kernel handles video, and there was
some talk of yet again reorganising how the virtual consoles work, and
in particular moving the console X runs
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 20:56 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
If this is what happened everything is working as it should. One way to
test this would be to manually create /dev/vcsa1 and see it it works.
Checked. It does work.
...
The later alternative seems applicable here. So,
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Russell Stuart wrote:
Works for me on 2.6.29. What kernel are you using?
Subject line says 2.6.30-1-686.
It is odd there is no /dev/vcsa1, since the rest are there.
I see that too. But the error message says:
/dev/vcc/a1: No such file or directory
and that's a
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Russell Stuart wrote:
Works for me on 2.6.29. What kernel are you using?
Subject line says 2.6.30-1-686.
It is odd there is no /dev/vcsa1, since the rest are there.
I see that too. But the error message says:
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:39 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
From X, conspy 2 and 5 work as expected.
So, apart from the inexplicable vanishing act of /dev/vcsa1, everything
works as expected - yes? Well, apart making the error message clearer.
The problem is the vcs device nodes were
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Russell Stuart wrote:
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:39 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
From X, conspy 2 and 5 work as expected.
So, apart from the inexplicable vanishing act of /dev/vcsa1, everything
works as expected - yes?
Right.
Well, apart making the error
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 00:25 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
Ok. But how do we go about the the inexplicably vanished /dev/vcsa1?
Kernel and/or udev bug?
There are a lot of possibilities unfortunately. I know 2.6.30 brought
some real changes in the way the kernel handles video, and
Works for me on 2.6.29. What kernel are you using?
It is odd there is no /dev/vcsa1, since the rest are there. That says
to me there is no terminal console 1, in which case conspy is doing what
it should do. If conspy 2, conspy 3, etc works then I would say that is
definitely the case.
--
Package: conspy
Version: 1.6-1
Severity: important
# conspy 1
/dev/vcc/a1: No such file or directory
# ls -al /dev/vc*
crw-rw 1 root root 7, 0 Jul 3 17:44 /dev/vcs
crw-rw 1 root root 7, 2 Jul 3 17:45 /dev/vcs2
crw-rw 1 root root 7, 3 Jul 3 17:45 /dev/vcs3
crw-rw 1 root
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