From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) Subject: Re: 3 Problems with Linux. Please Help! Date: 25 Sep 1993 09:17:41 -0700
levinson@vax.sonoma.edu wrote:
: 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?
Did you install it? If so, did you remove the old one? they
are not necessarily in the same places - check and make sure
you are using the new one ... BTW - 1.4(b) is very nice - I hear
that it's officially out as 1.4g now - either at sunsite or tsx-11.
- mark
: 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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