No virtual consoles??

chaanakya · 2012-01-04 16:06:46

Hey guys!

I've managed to get Debian running on my Archos tablet using this guide. Confidently, I upgraded to sid. Now, however, I don't get any ttys and I can't start X. It's looking for tty2, which apparently doesn't exist! Sure enough, there is no /dev/tty2. For that matter, there is only /dev/tty0!!

Any ideas?

Sincerely,

Chaanakya

rhowaldt · 2012-01-04 16:51:50

aren't the tty's handled through /etc/inittab ? you might want to check out the contents of that file, plus the man-page for it, as i cannot help you with the syntax at all (don't understand it )

xaos52 · 2012-01-04 16:56:08

The tty devices come either from out of an initramfs or they are created by udev at startup ?

chaanakya · 2012-01-04 21:06:41

@rhowaldt: Unfortunately, the contents of that file are exactly the same as the ones on my #! setup, so it can't be that.

@xaos52: Maybe they come out of an initramfs - that would explain a discrepancy. udev should behave the same under both systems...

chaanakya · 2012-01-05 07:27:40

The funny thing is that all of those nodes exist under Stable....???? (I just checked as I wasn't sure). Maybe the Sid version of udev for armel has a bug????

chaanakya · 2012-01-05 07:30:14

Or is it [a]getty which creates the nodes?

Last edited by chaanakya (2012-01-05 07:30:27)

chaanakya · 2012-01-08 17:41:38

I'm just trying to figure out which package it could be....does udev create the nodes or does getty?

Thanks in advance!

- Chaanakya

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#1 2012-01-04 16:06:46

No virtual consoles??

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#5 2012-01-05 07:27:40

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