[Solved] Can boot fine, but all TTYs are frozen at UDev

I've only noticed this recently when I was trying out some new WMs, and tried to change back to openbox.
I'm using the catalyst driver from the catalyst repo.
Upon boot, everything works fine. The first few outputs are at a stupid resolution, but when it hits the "Udev processing" part, it swaps to the proper resolution, and boots just fine.
However, when I try to access one of the TTYs, they are all still stuck at the silly resolution, with the status of the Udev statement stuck at [Busy]. I then can't swap back to X.
Here is my /etc/inittab:
# /etc/inittab
# Runlevels:
# 0 Halt
# 1(S) Single-user
# 2 Not used
# 3 Multi-user
# 4 Not used
# 5 X11
# 6 Reboot
## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
#id:5:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/bin/su iain -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c /usr/bin/startx >/dev/null 2>&1"
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/lightdm 2>&1 /dev/null
# End of file
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
pritchard92
Last edited by pritchard92 (2012-04-12 15:56:06)

I own an Nvidia card, so I can't help you much, but according to the Catalyst wiki page, "xorg-server 1.12 is in [extra] repo, catalyst does not support it so please use [xorg111] repo]". So you *do* have Xorg v1.11, right?
$ pacman -Qi xorg-server
You should try the open source radeon driver instead. Or are you that much into gaming on Linux? Open source drivers offer some 3D support but for gaming you're probably better off dual booting with Windows. By switching to radeon you'll also get rid of that "silly resolution", as catalyst doesn't support KMS.
PS: Here's my /etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin -s 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
I got rid of those newbie comments a long time ago.
By having just 3 tty's it keeps my X session on Ctrl+Alt+F4 (because sometimes I find it frustrating to cop a feel for my F7 - especially in the dark, as I have a black keyboard...). The "-n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin" part is from this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console (C login program) and the "--noclear" parameter removes some of the flickering during boot (the boot messages stay on screen).
Last edited by DSpider (2012-04-06 08:58:27)

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