Subject: 3 Problems with Linux. Please Help! From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 23 Sep 1993 21:13:19 -0800
I have a few problems.
1)
First of all, I have .99pl12. I notice sometimes my
keyboard locks on boot up. I never had this problem on .99pl11 or less. I
have tried to recompile the kernel with both NUMLOCK on and NUMLOCK off, but
with the same problem. Pressing the numlock and/or scroll lock keys does not
toggle the lamps, so, this leads me to believe it is some kind of
driver/initialize problem. I have tried different keymaps, but the keymaps
would not matter since the keyboard is not being recognized.
This happens regardless on if I use LILO or the standard raw boot image on a
floppy.
2)
Minicom-
The version that comes with SLS1.01 has some problems. Pop up windows leave
strange characters on the screen when they disappear. The VT100 emmulation is
not very good. There are no linefeeds, and when I do a ^A A to turn linefeeds
on, stuff comes out double spaced. When I try to recompile the distribution
for MINICOM on sunsite:/pub/linux... it compiles, but when I run it, I get a
Segmentation Fault and it dumps the core. Is PCOMM any better?
3)
Someone mentioned this before, but I will bring it up since I think it needs
looking into by the developers of Linux. Compiling is very irratic. Sometimes
I get linker failures, sometimes I get compiler errors, but when I recompile
even without rebooting, everything compiles correctly. There may be something
wrong with memory management, or the compiler itself, or maybe even a library
entry.
If anyone has any information on how I can remedy any of these problems, please
write private-email. I will definately try them and post a report when I get
it fixed.
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