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Hi, |
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I have an ~amd64 laptop, running latest portage version of packages |
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and kernel 3.7.2. It was set up with fbsplash and quiet boot, so I |
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don't see any kernel/openrc messages, just the splash screen and |
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progress bar prior to the X login screen. It is using radeon KMS |
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driver. |
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For the past few weeks I've had a strange problem: when I type things |
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in Xorg, it also types them into the first text console! Imagine my |
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surprise when I had been doing an emerge in Xfce's terminal and |
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ctrl-alt-F1 and saw the same output and commands typed into the text |
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console. |
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Now I don't know if it was actually executing my typed commands twice, |
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or simply showing the same console output there as in X. This happens |
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whether I use xdm/slim/kdm or start Xorg manually after logging in as |
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a regular user. |
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It does not happen every time I reboot or every time I open X console, |
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but it is frequent enough. It seems that if I switch back and forth, |
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close and reopen terminal in Xorg, then it works normally after that. |
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Around the same time this started, another two strange problems started: |
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1) xdm/slim/kdm sometimes does not start until I press alt-F7. Gentoo |
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will boot to text terminal login prompt in this case. |
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2) quiet boot no longer works, I see kernel messages scrolling prior |
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to fbsplash kicking in. This started when I updated to kernel 3.7. |
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It seems like perhaps they could be related... |
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Has anyone seen/heard of this behavior before? I will try removing all |
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fbsplash stuff and recompiling the kernel when next I get a chance, to |
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see if it makes any difference. Maybe I should downgrade to a 3.6 |
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kernel first to see if that's really related or coincidental. |