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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:13:45PM -0800, David Moberg wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > No. Nor does kill PID or switching to tty1 and shutting down the
> > xserver with ^C, or anything like that. No matter what I do,
> > it kills the tty and I have reboot.
> 
> This is one of the "fish hooks" that Steven mentioned. Xvesa does not
> always behave correctly when you ask it to shut down.
> 
> > Because the getty on tty2 won't allow me to login (takes username
> > but not password) I have to reboot. That getty doesn't work at
> > all, by the way. I can't switch to it with Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login,
> > ever.

Turns out that I _can_ login on tty2. I just can't _see_ it or use
it because the tty runs off the screen below! It's too long for
the screen.

????

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Lee