[gentoo-user] Strange keyboard problem

[gentoo-user] Strange keyboard problem

[Paul Hartman]

Hi,

I have an ~amd64 laptop, running latest portage version of packages
and kernel 3.7.2. It was set up with fbsplash and quiet boot, so I
don't see any kernel/openrc messages, just the splash screen and
progress bar prior to the X login screen. It is using radeon KMS
driver.

For the past few weeks I've had a strange problem: when I type things
in Xorg, it also types them into the first text console! Imagine my
surprise when I had been doing an emerge in Xfce's terminal and
ctrl-alt-F1 and saw the same output and commands typed into the text
console.

Now I don't know if it was actually executing my typed commands twice,
or simply showing the same console output there as in X. This happens
whether I use xdm/slim/kdm or start Xorg manually after logging in as
a regular user.

It does not happen every time I reboot or every time I open X console,
but it is frequent enough. It seems that if I switch back and forth,
close and reopen terminal in Xorg, then it works normally after that.

Around the same time this started, another two strange problems started:
1) xdm/slim/kdm sometimes does not start until I press alt-F7. Gentoo
will boot to text terminal login prompt in this case.
2) quiet boot no longer works, I see kernel messages scrolling prior
to fbsplash kicking in. This started when I updated to kernel 3.7.

It seems like perhaps they could be related...

Has anyone seen/heard of this behavior before? I will try removing all
fbsplash stuff and recompiling the kernel when next I get a chance, to
see if it makes any difference. Maybe I should downgrade to a 3.6
kernel first to see if that's really related or coincidental.

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange keyboard problem

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an ~amd64 laptop, running latest portage version of packages
> and kernel 3.7.2. It was set up with fbsplash and quiet boot, so I
> don't see any kernel/openrc messages, just the splash screen and
> progress bar prior to the X login screen. It is using radeon KMS
> driver.
>
> For the past few weeks I've had a strange problem: when I type things
> in Xorg, it also types them into the first text console! Imagine my
> surprise when I had been doing an emerge in Xfce's terminal and
> ctrl-alt-F1 and saw the same output and commands typed into the text
> console.

disabling all the *splash stuff fixed this and my XDM problem. Kernel
quiet mode works though OpenRC is still noisy, that's what I was
seeing before the splash screen came up. It didn't used to be that
way... For now I'll just live without splash and go back to good old
text and penguins for my bootup. :)